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    <title>There Will Come Soft Rains Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the There Will Come Soft Rains Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Suspense starts to build in this story as we wonder where the family is,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Suspense starts to build in this story as we wonder where the family is, and when they are going to appear, if at all.  The first infusion of suspense is after the breakfast food that is prepared so fastidiously by the machines is not eaten.  All of that food is thrown away, after sitting there for quite some time.  At this point, the reader has to wonder to oneself, where is the family?  Why didn't they eat the breakfast?  From then on,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where is there suspense in Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where is there suspense in Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:50:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are a couple of things that Bradbury is trying to convey. The poem...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are a couple of things that Bradbury is trying to convey. The poem within the story alludes to one message. The truth of the matter is that nature has been utterly destroyed by the war as indicated by the dog who was once healthy and is now boney and marked with sores. Even though the poem indicates that nature will be happy when man is destroyed, that reality does not come to pass in the story.
There is hope however, in the artificial...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:42:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the message Bradbury tries to get acrros in the story august...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the message Bradbury tries to get acrros in the story august 2026 There Will Come Soft Rains?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:56:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition to all humans being destroyed, the only other living thing...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/soft-rains/q-and-a/cotrast-frailty-human-life-powers-technology-110863</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In addition to all humans being destroyed, the only other living thing we see in the story dies because it cannot reach the food it smells. So, not only did technology destroy humanity in the form of a nuclear bomb, but it also almost cruelly keeps the dog shut out of the kitchen, unable to access the food that the kitchen was still constantly cooking. The house itself does a better job of protecting what's inside than humans ever could; since...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:19:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At least in this story, the power of technology is written as a much...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At least in this story, the power of technology is written as a much more significant and lasting force in the world than the fragile human life that created it.  The story's characters are entirely robotic or technological--we have the robot voice speaking to the absent family, the scurrying techno-mice that clean the place, the breakfast and dinner making machines, etc.  All of these pieces of technology were, long after the family was,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:49:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "There Will Come Soft Rains" contrast the frailty of human life to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "There Will Come Soft Rains" contrast the frailty of human life to the powers of technology.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:18:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "There Will Come Soft Rains" Ray Bradbury portrays symbolism through...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "There Will Come Soft Rains" Ray Bradbury portrays symbolism through the house, the mice, and the poem. All of these objects reflect mankinds use of technology. We are steering away from human interaction and our routines are becoming monotonous, mundane, technology-driven activities.
The house symbolizes mankind. We are constantly busy. Everyday we check off things on our "to do" lists and make more, longer lists. Our routines are almost...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:32:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'll begin with foreshadowing, since its purpose is fairly...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'll begin with foreshadowing, since its purpose is fairly straightforward. In "There Will Come Soft Rains", foreshadowing is evident in the reading of the poem. The poem suggests that "Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree/if mankind perished utterly." The humans are already gone at the beginning of the story, but this hints that the last vestige of humanity, the house, will be destroyed as well. Another example is in the death of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:47:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is formalism used in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is formalism used in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:09:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's good to know Bradbury's inspiration for this short story, for once...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's good to know Bradbury's inspiration for this short story, for once you know it, you have a better sense of what is being related... the depths of the story's melancholy poetic exposition:

There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;And frogs in the pools singing at night,And wild plum trees in tremulous white;Robins will wear their feathery...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:21:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Ray Bradbury write this story "There Will Come Soft Rains"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Ray Bradbury write this story "There Will Come Soft Rains"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:18:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is there symbolism in "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/soft-rains/q-and-a/there-symbolism-there-will-come-soft-rains-by-ray-107091</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Is there symbolism in "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Since the story is so short, there isn't much time to slip a whole lot...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since the story is so short, there isn't much time to slip a whole lot of foreshadowing in, but, Bradbury does manage it.  Take a look at the first line.  Right in the first line of the story, it mentions that there is a clock that speaks out the time to the house and family, and tells them that it is time to get up.  Then, here is the foreshadowing; the clock speaks "as if it were afraid that nobody would."  Right there that is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:24:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An allusion is a reference within a work of literature to history,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An allusion is a reference within a work of literature to history, religion, other literature, or anything within the culture really. Today, references to pop culture including celebrities and TV are common. The most obvious example of allusion in this story is the title, taken from the Sara Teasdale poem which the house recites. ''There Will Come Soft Rains"  was written in response to World War I. Teasdale believed that after all the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:48:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is allusion used in "There Will Come Soft Rains," by Ray Bradbury?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is allusion used in "There Will Come Soft Rains," by Ray Bradbury?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:05:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is there foreshadowing in "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/soft-rains/q-and-a/there-foreshadowing-there-will-come-soft-rains-by-103769</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Is there foreshadowing in "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:25:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The technology in the story is actually presented as the main character,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The technology in the story is actually presented as the main character, in the form of the automated house. Because all humans have been killed, the house becomes the only being (other than animals) left behind. Yes, it does perform its continued tasks without realizing there are no people, but Bradbury uses abundant figurative language throughout the story to bring the house to life. The continued use of personification to describe the house...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:41:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title of this well-known story comes from a poem by Sara Teasdale in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title of this well-known story comes from a poem by Sara Teasdale in which nature is depicted as indifferent to mankind's absence after its self-destruction. Bradbury's story has a similar theme. In it, technology, in the form of an automated house, is portrayed as mindless and soulless, continuing to perform its many functions for the humans who created it but are no longer there.
Eventually, the house (technology) is destroyed by fire...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:12:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Ray Bradbury portray technology in the story "There Will Come...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Ray Bradbury portray technology in the story "There Will Come Soft Rains?"
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