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There Will Come Soft Rains
In this line, Sara Teasdale is saying that nature will always exist without humankind. While we may need nature to survive, nature will always exist independently of us. Teasdale uses...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Bradbury tells us that the deserted house in the story stands alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This is our first real clue that what's left of Allendale, California, in 2026, is the remnant of...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale's poetry is often praised for its ability to be clear and simple. "There Will Come Soft Rains" is no exception. The poem's speaker provides readers with fantastically peaceful nature...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
There are several moments in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" when the story seems to take a dark, sinister turn. The first such moment is when, after a long, seemingly idyllic...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The entire context of this quote is as follows: The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The cause of the house's death starts with a nuclear holocaust but, significantly, it is nature that wields the final, decisive blow. Although the house's occupants are all dead, the house...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In this story, Bradbury is expressing concerns about the possibility of total destruction as a result of technological advancements. Remember that this story was published in 1950 against the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
We don't know exactly what the family were doing on the day of the apocalypse. But from the information provided by their automated house, we can make an educated guess. It's August 4th 2026, which...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
One of the themes of the story is the fundamentally inhuman nature of technology. The automated house was originally built to cater for the family's every need. Yet in the wake of a nuclear...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Although the text never directly answers this question, we can infer that the humans in this story are all dead due to nuclear devastation. This is captured most acutely in this section: The water...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
When a tree bough falls and breaks through the kitchen window, a container of cleaning chemicals shatters over top of the hot stove, and the kitchen catches fire immediately. The house employs all...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In Bradbury's short story, the only house that has survived a nuclear blast in Allendale, California in 2026 A.D. is a technologically-advanced smart home that continues to function after the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Imagery is the description of sensory information, using words to describe something we might experience with our senses. A description of something we might see is called visual imagery; something...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Bradbury begins the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by offering a vivid description of a technologically advanced smart-home as the house automatically performs its daily functions. While...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," the completely automated smart home is the only house standing in the wake of a nuclear attack. The technologically advanced smart home...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The opening line of the story begins with the smart home making an announcement that it is time for the family that lives in the house to wake up. The voice is pleasant-sounding, as we are told...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The unusual thing about all the characters in Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is that none of them are living human beings. The main character of the story is the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The automated house isn't really speaking to anyone, as there's no one left to speak to. In what appears to have been a nuclear apocalypse, every man, woman, and child has been wiped from the face...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The house can be seen as a character in this short story because it is personified: it is given human traits as if it is a living person. The house, like a stunned person might, keeps on...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
If the story's protagonist is the house, then the antagonist is going to be anything that seeks to destroy the house. The most concrete answer, then, is that the fire is the antagonist. The house...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” we read about a smart house that exists after a nuclear holocaust. The house continues to function, though no one is alive to experience the care that it is...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The house goes into a sudden state of alarm when the tree branch crashes through the window because the branch breaks a large bottle of cleaning solvent that is housed above the stove. When the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
This answer will focus on the key quotations of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains." The story is full of solid choices for key quotations, so feel free to pick quotes that you...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
It is true that the green chemicals are performing a positive action in trying to put out the fire. We learn that in response to the rapidly spreading flames, the chemicals are brought in as...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The point of view in this story is third-person omniscient. An omniscient, or all-knowing, narrator is able to communicate to the reader the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters, as well...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I assume that you are asking about the poet the house selects, Sara Teasdale, citing her as the wife's favorite. The house proceeds to recite Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains," even...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
This story has fantasy elements, such as the fact that it is set in a future time after a nuclear war and that it envisions a house that is more technologically advanced than houses we have now,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The house in the story shares several similarities with the smart homes of today. In the story, the house announces the date, any important details about the day (birthdays, anniversaries, bills...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Literature has always served a purpose in shaping people’s ideas about important subjects. One of the more recent examples was President Lincoln’s famous remark to Harriet Beecher Stowe, “So you're...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
One of the primary themes Bradbury explores throughout the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" concerns the dual nature of technology, which has the potential to be both convenient or...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
A typical plot sequence begins with the exposition and moves into rising actions. Next comes the story's climax followed by the falling actions and resolution. If this question is asking for what...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Bradbury creates and maintains suspense in his short story by only gradually revealing what is going to come. It is as if he is slowly pulling back a curtain. The first element that creates a sense...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The complete lack of human characters in "There Will Come Soft Rains" suggests two possible approaches for the reader. You can regard it as a story without characters and comment on this unusual,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In the science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, the house is not only the main character in the story, but the only character. Four humans are briefly mentioned,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Right before the fire, the house, hearing nothing from the deceased former inhabitants, randomly chooses and reads Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains." The poem's theme—the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In Ray Bradbury's celebrated short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," a completely automated smart home in Allendale, California continues to perform its routine mechanical functions in the wake...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The title of Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story is an allusion to a poem with the same title written by Sara Teasdale in 1918. The theme of the two works is similar: mankind's tendency toward...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
“There Will Come Soft Rains” contains an obvious statement of its theme in the Sara Teasdale poem from which the title is taken. This theme is the complete annihilation of humankind. The two most...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
On the simplest and most literal level, the house in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is finally destroyed by a fire caused by an accident. A wind knocked down a tree branch. It fell through a window...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
7 a.m. - The house wakes everyone (no one) up. 7:09 - Breakfast time for a family of four: "eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
An allusion is a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. There are three important allusions in Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains."...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Even though there are no living human characters in Ray Bradbury's 1950 story, he creates pathos through personifying certain elements of an automated house. In a post-apocalyptic California, the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” the ‘gods’ who disappeared are the people who lived in the house. The story is set in the year 2026, and the premise is that after the nuclear holocaust destroyed...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
When an accident of nature sets off a fire in the house and there is not enough water and fire-fighting chemicals to put out the raging fire, the house is destroyed. Although a nuclear blast kills...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
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...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The universal theme of Ray Bradbury's story is the double-edged sword of technology: while technology can provide convenience and make important contributions to society, it also can be detrimental...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The main message that the world could continue without humans is the same, but the messages of the story and poem differ slightly. The poem by Teasdale is about the destructive nature of humans,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In my opinion, the main purpose of this story is to warn people of the dangers of relying too much on technology. In the society in the story, people have come to rely on technology for everything....
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury's 1950 story "There Will Come Soft Rains" features a third-person omniscient point of view. This means that the narrator observes and describes action but does not participate in it...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I think that the tone of this short story shifts during the story. In the beginning of the story, the tone is one of loneliness. The house in the story is smart, but Bradbury has given the house...
