There Will Come Soft Rains Analysis

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In school we read a story named “There will Come Soft Rains”. The story was by Ray Bradbury and inside the story at one part Sara Teasdale’s poem came on also called “There will Come Soft Rains”. They are both kinda life lessons or warning to tell us because when both the story/poems were written there was a “war” going on.

The poem written by Sara Teasdale was written in 1920. At the time The Great War (Later called World War One) was going on and it was all chaos and people didn’t really know what to do or what would happen when it was done! The poem was basically saying that when we are gonna nature won’t care let alone they won’t even notice! She wrote it as a caution she wrote is as this is what would happen.

The ‘story’ written by

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