There Will Come Soft Rains
1
by Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rains and the
smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their
shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at
night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous
white;
5
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low
fence-wire.
And not one will know of the war,
not one
Will care at last when it is done.
10
Not one would mind, neither bird
nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke
at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were
gone.
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Idea 1 :
There Will Come Soft
Rains
By the Waters of
Babylon
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Mans’ role in the
future of the
earth.
Man no longer has a role. He
has in effect annihilated
himself.
Man exists but has been
relegated to his most
primitive state.
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Stanzas 9-10 Teasdale
emphasizes how humans have
destroyed our planet and
nature will be indifferent to our
loss as a race. Shown in the
following lines ,
Idea 1:
Text Support:
On page 577 Benet uses
irony to show just how
primitive the protagonist
society lives. As depicted
in the following lines,
“Not one would mind, neither bird
nor tree If mankind perished
utterly;”
“We are not ignorant like
the Forest People-our
women spin wool on the
wheel…We do not eat grubs
from the tree…”
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The Use of
Technology in both
poem & story
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Idea 3:
TWCSR
BTWOB
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