In the poem "Green Rain," how does Dorothy Livesay represent nature?

In the poem "Green Rain," Dorothy Livesay repeatedly compares nature scenes and sounds to her grandmother's things and her grandmother's house. The first comparison occurs in the first stanza. The narrator of the poem tells readers about the "long veils of green rain." The narrator says that those long veils were feathered like her grandmother's shawl. This information about how the rain and feathered shawl are intricately tied together in her memory is again highlighted in the last line of the poem.

But now I remember the dayAs I remember my grandmother.I remember the rain as the feathery fringe of her shawl.

Another great comparison comes in the second stanza when the narrator says that the rain's "silence" was a lot like her grandmother's parlor. The parlor was the place that was filled with her grandmother's voice rising and falling, as the rain and wind tends to do during various storms.