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The Rainy Day
The Rainy Day
Stanza One
Paraphrasing:
He speaks of the day as “cold, and dark, and dreary”. The “wind is never weary”. This is an
interesting use of personification which explains the wind as tough and strong. With every
blow dead leaves fall.There is a slightly more hopeful image as he describes the vine that still
“clings to the mouldering wall”. It is something that has not been destroyed by the
elements.
Paraphrasing:
In this stanza, he talks about himself and his thoughts. They “cling to the mouldering Past” and
his hopes “fall thick in the blast” of the storm, or his mental perception of his life. The day is a
cloudy one, dark and dull with rain .
To add more to this gloomy image, the vine still clings on to the decaying and molding wall. This
shows that even the place around the poet is decaying. There is some force, some kind of
depression that is overcoming him as a cold, dark storm takes over a warm, sunny day.
i. How does the mood of the poet correspond with the environment.?
Ans. The poet has the sad mood due to some unfulfilled desires of the past life. This
mood rightly corresponds with the rain and wind that is continuously blowing without
being tired.
ii. Which aspect of human life has been depicted in the stanza .? What about the poet
is talking about in this stanza?
Ans. The poet tells about the realistic aspect of human life that a man’s wishes are
never fulfilled. In youth , plans are made but when these plans are not fulfilled , life
becomes sad and gloomy.
iii. What are poet’s feeling in the rain.?
Ans. He depicts his emotions and the storm occurring around him as dark and dreary. The
weather/depression is inescapable.
iv). What does but the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast mean?
Ans. The line 'but the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast' means you cannot keep your past
and the future will eventually catch up to you.
Stanza Three
Despite what’s going on around him, during this period of depression, he knows that there is
still “sun” shining behind the clouds. It is inevitable that there are darker moments to life,
these are just part of living. His heart must learn, he asserts, that some days are going to be
“dark and dreary” so that others may be warm and rewarding.