The poem describes the coming of rains in a rural village. It details how the rain affects both nature and the local community. The rain wakes up animals and people, soaks the dry ground and washes away dust. It ends the drought and allows the villagers to restart their harvest and collect hopes for the new season. The poem illustrates humanity's dependence on nature and the power of the rains to sustain life.

1. RAIN
MUHAMMAD HAJI SALLEH
Layla Suraya
TSL 1304
IPG KPI
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2. Background Of The Poet
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5. RAIN
Suddenly they came, the mid-year padi rains,
falling slanted among the dried Lalang
and into the branch-drains of the brown canals;
the big regular drops falling at their own rhythm
became the overwhelming sound of an insistent tempo
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6. It woke up the child in the sarong cradle
and the old resting father
Water has come. He looked out into the sheet of rain
descending along the atap leaves.
The rivulets carried the flattened straw
and the dust of the drought,
in their dark grey flowing threads
slithering to the depressions in the ground
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7. Thin dry ducks quacked
splashed by the strange rain
and chickens ran from under the trees
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8. It was the beginning of an answer
Pak Usin’s dark skinned muscles quivered
Rain slapped the leaves and bent the young coconuts
shook the drought of its death-dust
and swept the remains of harvest rubbish
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9. For this season they collected hopes
again
Carried them under cover from the
heat to this day
The rain fell and wetted their praying
throats
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10. From the poem, the poet presents the readers on
how the nature-the rain, affects the animals and
people. The poet illustrates that scenery with the
description of the reaction of the plants and
animals and the humans react towards the rain
that comes
suddenly.
The power of nature can be seen by the way the
rain affects the reaction of the
animals and human. This can be depicted by the
men need the rain to continue their
planting of paddy to sustain the life and living of
the men.
This can also be inferred that it is the power of
nature that helps men to survive.
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11. THEME:
Power of nature
Dependence of men on
nature to survive
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12. • MORAL VALUE:
We should appreciate the nature because it gives many benefits to us
We should be grateful with all the benefits/blessings from the nature.
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13. • STRUCTURE:
• Second persona point of view
• The poem have five stanza
• 1st stanza (5 lines)
• 2nd stanza (8 lines)
• 3rd stanza (3lines)
• 4th stanza (5lines)
• 5th stanza (3lines)
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14. RHYME SCHEME:
• abcde-1st stanza
• abcdefgh-2nd stanza
• abc-3rd stanza,
• abcde 4th stanza
• abc- 5th stanza
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15. • Impressed-by the power of
nature
• Excited-because finally it’s
raining
TONE:
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16. • Personification = ‘Suddenly they came, the mid-
year padi rains’. From here, we can indicate that the
poet imagines that the rains is alive that they can
move around.
• Assonance = ‘Water has come. He looked out into
the sheet of rain’. From this sentence, it contains
five vowel “o” which is the traits of assonance that
with the repetition of the same vowel in the same
sentence
• Intonation = Full of hope and grateful
LITERARY DEVICES:
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17. TUTORIAL 1
• Writing Task
• Write a short paragraph to express relevance of
poem to environment/live and the world.
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