Compare And Contrast There Will Come Soft Rains

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The title of the story comes from the first line of the Sara Teasdale poem selected by the house to be read aloud.

What do the poem and the story have in common?

How are they different? Support your answer with details from both the poem and story.

In the story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” written by, “Ray Bradbury,” the story talks about an empty house where an tragic event killed many people. The animals was doing regular things without knowing that there was a war going on. Even tho both stories are different they that are similar by mentioning the war that was going on. Both stories are similar in some ways, but both stories are also the same in other ways. In the story, There Will come Soft Rains,” the story talks about

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