Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven
By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn
Her fields and valleys.
I am beautiful pearls, plucked from the
Crown of Ishtar by the daughter of Dawn
To embellish the gardens.
Paraphrase: The rain calls itself the shimmering drops falling one after another from heaven sent by gods. Nature has adopted it to decorate her fields and valleys. The rain calls herself the ‘pearls’ that were plucked from the crown of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility by the daughter of Dawn to decorate the gardens.
(a) How does the rain define itself?
(b) Why has nature adopted the rain?
(c) ‘I am beautiful pearls’. Name the poetic devices used in this line.
(a) The rain calls itself the shimmering drops falling one after another from heaven sent by gods.
(b) Nature has adopted it to add beauty to the fields and valleys.
(c) ‘Personification’ and ‘metaphor’ are the poetic devices used in this line.