English Notes Class 10 Chapter no 5 Summary

 English Notes (Class 10)

Chapter no 5

Summary:     The Rain

“The Rain” is a symbolic poem in which the Upper leaves of a tree represent the rich and the lower leaves represent the poor of society. The sunshine symbolizes the day when the darkness of poverty will come to an end and there will be a fear distribution of the blessings of nature.

“The Amen of nature is always a flower.” — Oliver Wendell

 The poet describes a scene of nature. The sound of raindrops falling on leaves seems as if leaves were drinking rain. The leave on the top are rich as they have the maximum rain while the leaves beneath are poor because they get rain drop by drop. Nature appears kind and beneficent. The rhyming lines at the end of each stanza enhance the musical effect of the poem.

The poet is delighted to see and hear the sights and sounds of nature bathing in the rain. He hopes that after the rain, the sun will shine and brighten the whole surrounding. The word ‘dark’ in this stanza refers to the darkness of poverty and misery in the world. The poem ends with an optimistic note that a time will come when this darkness will disappear and the gulf between the rich and the poor will disappear.

      " If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."