Rain
Don Peterson’s ‘Rain’ is one of the most interesting poems by contemporary poets. The poem was published for the first time by the New Yorker magazine in 2008 and caught the reader’s attention for its explanation of how film producers and scriptwriters use rain in the first few minutes of movies to elicit various emotions. The author explains that rain always attracts the audience’s attention, regardless of whether movie directors present it in drizzling or heavy falling form.
Another feature that makes the poem stand out from other contemporary poems of the twentieth century is the poet’s use of a structured rhyme scheme. The poet also triggers the reader’s illustration of nature and the piece that follows when it is cold and they are watching it in a warm room (Conners, 2017). The poem also reminds the audience about the surreal feeling the rain brings whenever rain droplets slowly trickle down a windowpane; viewing a movie that starts with rain brings similar feelings, even in hot summers.
The poem makes a movie interesting to a person who has read movie reviews and concluded that a certain movie was not worth watching. When the beginning scenes start with a thundering downpour, the viewer shifts attention to the large droplets and the deluge of sound that follows. The poem also draws readers to the use of rain to create suspense in movies, which starts with a character standing beside a telephone line, and it starts raining. The viewer follows the next sections of the movie to find out what happens to the character after it starts pouring.
Link to the poem: https://genius.com/Don-paterson-rain-annotated
References
Conners, P. (2017). Cold Rain and Snow. In Cornell’77 (pp. 23-34). Cornell University Press.
https://genius.com/Don-paterson-rain-annotated
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Question 
Poetry
Do you have a favorite poem or poet?
Rain
This Discussion Board will offer you the opportunity to introduce this poet to the whole class. If you are not a fan of poetry in general, no problem. I hope you found at least 1 poem on the weekly assigned reading lists that you could choose to discuss maybe not as your favorite but as a text that may have caught your interest for some reason. The only condition is that this poem should be different from the one you possibly wrote about in Essay 2.
For your main post, please tell us about your favorite poem. If it is a poem we have not read in class, please include a link to the text so we can all read it. Explain what attracts you to this poem, what feelings and ideas it generates in you. You can also tell us about the circumstances in which you encountered this poem.
To receive full credit for this Discussion Board:
- Submit your main post of approximately 250 words