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How Is Technology Used In There Will Come Soft Rains

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Humans like relying on other things instead of themselves. We need to appreciate what we have and learn to be content with it. Both the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury and the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale Bradbury and Teasdale both discuss how technology and nature don’t need us, but we need both of them to survive, and when we’re gone, they won’t notice. Technology is a very useful thing that we have that helps make our lives easier and better. Few people like it, though but many are getting used to it and relying on it to do way too much for them. There are different technologies out there, like the ones that help us with writing, communicating with family and friends, and also working. There …show more content…

These are some things that the people who used to live in this house used technology for, and now that they’re not there anymore, the equipment doesn't know what to do and doesn’t even notice. Bradbury continues by adding a poem that has the same name as the title in the short story, whose theme is that nature doesn’t need humans; instead, we need it, because nature was here first and will still be here when we’re gone, just like how technology will be here too. The poem starts with the speaker describing the different peace scenes there, where frogs are croaking in pools of water at night and birds circling, singing out their "shimmering sounds." The speaker continues by adding that the world's creatures, trees, and wind are all in harmony and are content with one another. And then the second half of the poem talks about how if everyone was at war, nature and "Spring" wouldn't notice or be affected by it. Considering how little humans fit into their world, they would not care if everyone on the planet vanished. The speaker ends the poem by saying that spring will come whether or not humans are there. The reason Bradbury adds these poems to his short story is to let the reader know that nature and technology are similar in this case. Both contain the identical themes of man (technology) versus nature, the destruction of humanity, and nature always

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