4- Comment on the imagery in "it droppeth as gentle rain from heav'n
,The quality of mercy is not strained
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heav'n
;Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed
:It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest
4- Comment on the imagery in "it droppeth as gentle rain from heav'n
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The imagery represented by this line is one that describes "mercy" or morality as natural as a gentle rain.
Source(s): Merchant of Venice
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The speaker uses a simile to compare mercy to "gentle rain". It cannot be denied that rain is basic for all living creatures, to live on earth. The adjective "gentle" describes that kind of rain that cannot harm or destroy creatures. The word "heav'n" has a double meaning because it means sky and it means paradise too…
