The document discusses the relationship between rain and various art forms such as music, painting, photography, cinema, and poetry. It provides examples of poems about rain by Dylan Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others. It then prompts the reader to try writing their own limerick about rain and provides examples of student-written limericks on the topic.

1. Raindrops bring life to all of us
Comenius Project 2011-12

3. Rain and Arts

4. Rain and Arts
Rain and Music

5. Vysoke Tatry Slovakia
Vivaldi: Winter
Hestfjellet, Norway
Amsterdam BudapestBonhinj - Spain
Hungary
TheLakeLa Rioja Slovenia
Netherlands

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Rain and Painting

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Rain and cinema

32. IV Rain and cinema

33. Rain and Arts
Rain and Poetry

34. Dylan Thomas
“Poem in October”
Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around.

35. Thomas Hardy
“A thunderstorm in town”
She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress,
And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
Within the hansom's dry recess,
Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless
We sat on, snug and warm.
Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,
And the glass that had screened our forms before
Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:
I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more.

36. Longfellow
“The rainy day”
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

37. Coleridge
Ode To The Rain
I know it is dark; and though I have lain, Awake, as I
guess, an hour or twain,
I have not once open'd the lids of my eyes, But I lie in
the dark, as a blind man lies.
O Rain! that I lie listening to,
You're but a doleful sound at best:
I owe you little thanks,'tis true,
For breaking thus my needful rest!
Yet if, as soon as it is light,
O Rain! you will but take your flight,
I'll neither rail, nor malice keep,
Though sick and sore for want of sleep.
But only now, for this one day,
Do go, dear Rain! do go away!

38. And now it’s your turn!!!
You’re going to try and produce your own poem….. An
easy one, don’t panic.
How about a limerick?

39. Let’s see first what a limerick is.
A kind of witty, humorous or nonsense poem, a five line
stanza with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), very
popular in the XVIII and XIX centuries in England.
Some people say the limerick was invented by soldiers
returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick
in the 1700s

40. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH
LINE or “the heart of the joke”, being “there was a
…. from….” a classical beginning:

41. There was a young lady called Rose
Who had a large wart on her nose,
When she had it removed
Her appearance improved,
But her glasses shipped down to her toes
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “let’s flee”,
Let us fly, said the flea,
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

42. An exceedingly fat friend of mine
When asked at what time he’d dine
Replied, “At eleven,
At three, five and seven,
And eight and a quarter past nine”
A macho young swimmer named Dwyer,
Really liked playing with fire,
One night in the dark
He swam with a shark,
And his voice is now two octaves higher

43. Elements to take into an account
• Number of lines: 5
• Number of syllables: 8/8/5/5/8
• Rhyme: AABBA
• Rhythm pattern: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
For lines first, second and fifth
da DUM da da DUM
For lines third and fourth

44. And the topic?...
The rain!! obviously
Here are some words that may help you build your
limerick:
pain/ train/ faint/
gain/ lain/ drain/ claim/
rail/ Wales/ tale/
sale/ nail/ male/ tail

45. Here’s what some of our
students produced

46. When I was out walking in the rain
I thought about my nice time in Spain
The sun shone all day
And never went away
The rain was just making me insane
Sharon and Jasmÿn. Holland

47. The fish in the bowl was having pain
Because there was no water or rain
So he was almost dead
I gave him some bread
Now he is happy and quite gay
Tom and Dyon

48. There was a woman in Spain
Who loved to be out in the rain
She walked out the door
And walked even more
And then she was hit by a train
Jaime (Spain) Arne (Norway)

49. There is a bird that lives in Spain
But he really loves snow and rain
So he goes away
To Norway again
But so much cold will make him faint
Magida (Norway) Gloria (Spain)

50. The rain makes me feel very sad
This grey sky gonna drive me mad
I don’t wanna go out
I just wanna play and shout
That’s why today I’m not gonna get up
Belén and Elena (Spain)

51. There was a man with a big pain
Who had always lived in Spain
But raindrops didn’t fall
And his girlfriend called
While in the city it rained and rained
Tána (Slovakia) and Manolo (Spain)

52. There was a man on a plane
That moved because of the rain
He stood up to flirt
With a fearful girl
He fell and she laughed at his pain
Ma.del Rosell (Spain) Tajda (Slovenia)

53. Last day I saw a young female
Just crying loudly in the rain
She seemed to be lost
Walking like a ghost
She hit the wall and missed the train
Bea (Spain) Eva Kukec

54. Flowers have an important aim
It’s true they need a lot of rain
But I don’t want an umbrella
While I eat my paella
And enjoy my trip in Spain
Laura (Slovakia) Beatriz (Spain)

55. There was a girl in Spain
Who had really beautiful nails
But one day in the mall
rain began to fall
And she escaped catching a train
Fanny and Betti (Hungary)

56. Suddenly it started to rain
And everything looked much the same
The sky was crying
Cause light was dying
What else could I do but complain?
Kine (Norway) and Jero (Spain)

57. Original idea and edition by
Rosalía Lax
Octavio Sáez