1. Can the rain really talk to the wind?Can the wind really listen to the rain?Can the flowers really kneel?
No the rain can't talk to the wind. The rain is not a person. Neither can the rain and the flowers kneel becuase its not a human being.
2.What are some of the effects that the tool of personification brings to this poem?
They bring it more to life if you can see what is going on in the story.
3. If the rain and flowers were real people, how would one describe the event that is occurring?
If the rain wind and flowers were real people, they will be arguing because push and smote.
4.If the flower were real people, how do they feel after the wind and the rain "smote"the garden bed''?
They would not feel good it is like being beat up, nobody feels good after being hit with a heavy blow.
5.Speculate on why the speaker of the poem empathizes with the flowers?
Because flowers are delicate and can be ripped of real easily and the rain was probably the problem in his life that knocks him down.
