Poetic Techniques in “There Will Come Soft Rains” “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale. Throughout the poem Teasdale uses personification, impactful or interesting words, and alliteration to show the lack of a bond between nature and the human body. Teasdale uses these methods to create the theme, nature will continue to live on weather the human race does or does not, and continues throughout her poem to prove the theme with these three methods. In the poem she writes that nature will live on whether or not society does. Teasdale’s personification shows how nature and humans act alike. “And frogs in the pools singing at night,” (3) Singing is an action done by humans and is used