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    This document contains a poem titled "First Showers" by Indian poet Nalini Sharma, along with context and analysis. It begins with biographical information about the author. The poem describes the refreshing effects of the first rain after a hot summer - how it soothes the poet's nerves and removes fatigue from her face. The analysis section then discusses how the rain energizes both the poet's body and mind, and refreshes the flora. It notes the poem's use of imagery and symbols to convey the unique charm of the first rain.

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    This document contains a poem titled "First Showers" by Indian poet Nalini Sharma, along with context and analysis. It begins with biographical information about the author. The poem describes the refreshing effects of the first rain after a hot summer - how it soothes the poet's nerves and removes fatigue from her face. The analysis section then discusses how the rain energizes both the poet's body and mind, and refreshes the flora. It notes the poem's use of imagery and symbols to convey the unique charm of the first rain.

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    This document contains a poem titled "First Showers" by Indian poet Nalini Sharma, along with context and analysis. It begins with biographical information about the author. The poem describes the refreshing effects of the first rain after a hot summer - how it soothes the poet's nerves and removes fatigue from her face. The analysis section then discusses how the rain energizes both the poet's body and mind, and refreshes the flora. It notes the poem's use of imagery and symbols to convey the unique charm of the first rain.

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    WELCOME

    FIRST SHOWERS
    BY NALINI SHARMA

    About the Author


    Nalini Sharma is a bilingual writer whose work has
    appeared in innumerable literary journals and magazines in
    India. She is also part of anthologies like Brave New
    Wave and The Heterogeneity of Story Writing. A retired
    school principal, she has a wide range of books published to
    her credit like Orchid (Vol.1 & 2), The Portrait, The Unwed
    Mother, Rhythm. Also to her credit are her books in Hindi –
    Guldasta, Ek Bar Phir, Unkaha Sach, Mrigtrishna and Suno
    Yeh Awaz Hey Kiski. Honours have always come her way for
    her creative work like Sahitya Shree, Bharath Bhasha
    Bhushan to name a few.
    FIRST SHOWERS
    Rain is welcomed everywhere. It adds to the beauty
    of nature.
    First showers is a beautiful poem written by the
    well-known Indian poet Nalini Sharma in which she
    speaks about the changes that the rain brings. First, she
    tells how the rain soothens her 'frayed nerves' and
    removes the strain from her face because of her work. She
    walks with unsteadiness because of getting wet but still
    she enjoys the rain and the changes it was bringing in.
    This video helps students in understanding the poem
    through listening.
    This is the malayalam translation of the poem which helps
    us to easily understand the poem.
    ANALYSIS

    On a hot summer day, fatigued well beyond


    words, the poet really longed for a first shower to
    enliven her otherwise dampened spirits. The day long
    heat has long robbed her energies. Weary lines have
    started to play first fiddle on her face. What she really
    most wished for was something that could make her
    body mind and soul cooled up. Returning back from her
    workplace after an exhausted day’s committed works,
    she was enthralled to embrace the first showers to every
    inch of her.
    Each of her cell throbbed with vibrant
    energy. The marks of fatigue on her visage was
    easily cleaned up. Her parched face shone brightly
    with cool drops dancing on her face. The poet
    gaily recounts how the first rain has soothed her
    frayed nerves. Rain always carries along with it a
    nostalgia, to incite dead passions, to bring back
    the old dusted memories to life, to freshen up the
    dull spirits and to spread mirth. Nature always is a
    perennial source of comfort and solace for those
    who seek. Not only has the rain, energized the
    fatigued body and mind of the poet, it also made
    the flora look afresh.
    The poet has relied on an abundance of images
    and symbols, rendering the poem a unique charm of its
    own travelers who were fed up with the long and tiring
    journey, feel relieved of the dust and heat and welcome
    wholeheartedly the tantalizing fragrance of the earth
    just after the first rain. Their anxieties are put to rest
    and they feel mostly charged up. The poet is in all
    praise of the rain god. She wanted to be grateful to him
    who has bestowed on us this bountiful blessing. The
    trees on the roadside with leaves covered with dust
    remain famished all through the summer and wish for a
    drop of water to quench their thirst. They look polished
    in their newly washed green attire and sway their leaves
    in mirth, once they are blessed with the bounteous rain.
    THANK YOU

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