“There Will Come Soft Rains” is a well-known scientific fiction. Ray Bradbury, who is the author of the story, demonstrates how the nature destroys mankind. The story takes place in the future, when robots and artificial intelligence(“AI”) take over the world. The robots do everything that people need, for example, making breakfast. A nuclear bomb explodes near the house, and the robots save the house. However, the house runs out of water and is destroyed by the natural fire.
Ray Bradbury is known for his novels, short stories, poems and his personal writing style, which makes his reputation higher than other pulp science writers. It is called "poetics" of science fiction. His most famous book is a novel, “Fahrenheit 451”. He uses poetics of science fiction to attract his work. In many, images created so impressively. I think many of his stories are literary masterpieces, as an artist, he passes in working age and the perfection of his creation. The story that we are going to discuss is one of them.
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The author expresses the emptiness of the house, which foreshadows the catastrophy at the end. The tone becomes hopeless as the story moves on. The author inserts a poem by Sara Teasdale (line 149-160) that is about human extinction. The tone in the poem is regretful, because the author of the poem, Teasdale, believes that the war caused the human extinction. When the house catches on fire, the tone is disparaging. The author uses exaggerations such as “ten billion angry sparks” to express the critical condition of the