There Will Come Soft Rains | Topics for Further Study
• Lyric poetry encompasses a wide range of styles and presentations, although it does prescribe certain guidelines. After familiarizing yourself with those guidelines and with the work of various lyric poets, compare Sara Teasdale’s poetry to Walt Whitman’s. How are they similar and how do they differ?
• Read Ray Bradbury’s short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” and write an essay explaining why you think his interpretation of the world’s future—in a science fiction sense—is more or less frightening than Teasdale’s.
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