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There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury

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In the short story “There will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury and Poem by the same name written by Sara Teasdale both tackle the idea of what would happen after we are gone. Bradbury decides to write of how technology would react to us being gone. Teasdale thinks about how nature would react and the conclusion she thought of would be of indifference from nature as it would barely know we were gone. Both these stories use Connotative Diction, Connotative Imagery, and Personification to develop their themes, like that of Bradbury’s theme of the danger of technology when we rely on it heavily, while Teasdale explores the idea of how insignificant mankind is in the face of the natural world. In Bradbury’s version of the story he tackles the
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