There Will Come Soft Rain Analysis

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War is a very controversial topic around the world, many people agreeing upon the need for war, but then others seeing the idea from an entirely different perspective. Sara Teasdale very blatantly puts her opinion out in her poem “There Will Come Soft Rain,” where she clearly paints out a beautiful scene to the reader, before abruptly connecting the peaceful flora and fauna she was describing, to this idea or war and the Earth. Teasdale’s poem, using familiar imagery, continuous structure, and meaningful alliteration, emphasizes her argument that in the long run, no matter what human conflict or war, the Earth will continue, with or without us. One of the most apparent forms of literary technique Teasdale uses is imagery. She specifically uses imagery that if familiar to the average person, like in the first stanza of her poem, when it reads, “There will come …show more content…
The way that she forms her poem goes along with this idea of continuity, showing that things (in this case, the Earth,) will continue and not much will stop that. Only two times in the poem does Teasdale actually end a sentence. Once, at the end of stanza four, “And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.” And again at the very end of the piece, “And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.” The first instance that Teasdale ends a sentence is when she is talking about a war ending. This connection ties together that piece of the poem, connecting both the words and the structure in the piece. It also has a strong effect on the reader by making another abrupt change in the middle of the poem. The beginning was one whole sentence, one whole idea, until it just stopped. But, again connecting her style and techniques ot her ideas, Teasdale continues the poem, much as she believes the world does, regardless of any conflict or

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