Themes In There Will Come Soft Rains

In today's world, technology is appreciated by most people, but it can be toxic and can lead to humanity's destruction. Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, uses Sara Teasdale poem to show that nature will thrive even when humans have gone extinct. Bradbury included Sara’s poem in his story because their themes are very similar, and they both emphasize nature’s power. Both of the authors themes are very similar. Both of the story and poem has a negative mind about technology and war. “Spring herself, when she woke, at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone ”(Teasdale 90). Spring is considered a women, so she could be less inattentive towards the war amongst mankind. Even when humans have perished and wars with nuclear weapons have occured, nature will continue to thrive and prosper. Nature doesn’t need mankind polluting them, so humans becoming extinct will be beneficial. But it’s also ironic because the house was full of technology, but was then burned down by the fire (92). This shows that nature is stronger than most people think. Additionally, nature and technology both don’t notice if mankind were to perish.

In Bradbury’s story, he uses technology as his main focus. In fact, Bradbury may have included Teasdale’s poem because it represented his thoughts, but through another perspective. A quote from Teasdale’s poem, “ Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly (90). The technology in the house didn’t notice that their homeowners were gone, and continued to do everything the same, acting like their homeowners were there. In nature, the birds nor tree would notice if the human race were to disappear. Technology doesn’t know when something is different unless a human points it out, and nature is uninterested in humans. However, these two literary pieces are different in some