What do the following lines mean?

This is poetic language. It means nothing if you are unwilling to feel the mood of the words.

The poem is about rain, and everything is understandable except these three lines. I'm a native English speaker in the US, and these lines make absolutely no sense to me.

The explanation for this might be that Gibran wrote in English and Arabic - this poem apparently written in English - and his syntax might have gotten confused here, caught somewhere between the two languages. Or he

in my opinion, earthly life symbolizes rain because it is a life giver, wings of death refers to clouds. it means that the cycle of rain starts from the five elements. When vapors from water bodies form clouds, the clouds rain and so journey of the drops of water end under the clouds ( Under the upraised wings of death)

i guess this is the perfect meaning thanx a lot it helped me really very much

The first line is a simile which means that all earthly life has a beginning and an end. The rain thinks of itself as a part of earthly life. It is born from the clouds with thunder and lightning, and these wild aspects of nature are referred to as 'mad elements'.

If I am not wrong, in Siberian mythology, the rainbow is symbolized as a vehicle which carries the human soul to the spirit o

Rain comes after a lot of unrest in nature . There is thunder , lightening, trees swing vigorously etc . This is just like what happens during the birth of a baby . But when it dies , it calmly seeps into the ground , fulfilling its purpose...Just like when a human dies after fulfilling their purpose of living .

The rain follows the cycle of life and death like an earthly life. It takes birth from many elements and dies under the wings of death

Life of line is paralleled to human life cycle. What I could decipher from those line is that human life like rain is full of sound and fury. Thunder and lightening all symbolizes the worries, anxieties ,deleterious situations humans have to encounter in life .we , humans , are destined to taste all these bitter fruits of life and eventually attains nirvana ,as we die .The rainbow symbolizes the

Both the rain and the earthly life are born out of the elements of nature .life on earth is very short.likewise the rain also has a very short life.at last both meet with death (for rain the upraised wings of death are clouds)

I need the explanation of this lines