“There Will Come Soft Rains” By Ray Bradbury is a short story that, rather than being a story with a plot, is rather more of a detailed description of an event. This short story shows a scene in a town in the US that has been decimated by a nuclear attack. The sole surviving structure, a robotic house, tends to its owners who have disappeared. This essay will discuss how Bradbury has used language features to show a setting without explicitly stating it, the text’s connection to the poem included in the story, and how it is connected to the real world. Bradbury uses a range of language features and phrases to imply the setting of the story, which has not been explicitly stated in the text itself. For example, the author in these sentences “The sun came out from behind the rain”. The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one …show more content…
In the story, the house recites to nobody a poem called “There will come soft rains” by Sara Teasdale. The poem in question is about the contrast between humans’s violent traits of causing wars and nature’s gentle peace, and frames how all of these conflicts caused by humans would be insignificant in the long run. Both of these stories feature war in it, and both of these poems were written during war/after war (The poem was written in 1918, wwI and the short story was after wwII in 1950). In the poem, it was said that “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.” This meant that even if humans had destroyed themselves in a war, nature would not care whatsoever. In the short story, a city has been decimated by a nuclear attack with no survivors. Overall, there were similar themes in both of the texts, like war, nature and mankind’s future. This shows how the short story and the poem connect, and also shows how the poem improved the short