A Stormy Welcome How does the speaker's relationship to the tropical setting change from the beginning to the end of the poem? I wake this morning to pouring rain and a bird belting out her feathery blues. Not rain like it rained in the place we just came from that was drizzly, chilly, misty, German rain, as polite and vague as a ticket conductor on the trains we used to take, back there, back then. This is crashing, angry, tropical Singaporean rain, more like a temper tantrum than mere weather. jump when the thunder bellows, and the lightning strikes the pre-dawn dark ke the furious flash of an eye. While the speaker appreciates the warmer climate at first she notices after time that she longs for a more familiar natural setting. Ri 10 While the calling bird first feels like a companion to the speaker, she later begins to consider it an unwanted reminder of her homesickness. While the storm initally leads the speaker to feel isolated, the effect it has on nature lures her oustide to explore the changes in the area. 2 3 While the tropical rain initially reflects the speaker's unhappiness, she finds beauty in the aftermath of the storm.