There Will Come Soft Rains

Loneliness. Everyone in existence knows how this feels. If you are human, you have experienced some type of exclusion. William Wordsworth’s poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” gives almost a whimsical feel to being isolated. The poem begins with the line, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (line 1) as if there was no set purpose of the speaker. The sentiment is nearly in a fantasy-like state. The poem begins with the speaker feeling lonely, isolated and detached from the world. But throughout the poem, the speaker talks about the beauty of nature. In an unforced manner, nature gives him joy. The poem is surrounded by figurative language. The

In “There Will Come Soft Rains” Ray Bradbury suggests that technology is very destructive and dehumanizing. Bradbury shows this through talking about a house in the year 2026 that does everything for the humans that live in it. The house makes their food, cleans the dishes, cleans the house, and even reads to them. To some people this may sound like a good thing, but Bradburry shows how the house is not a human and it just is not the same. These are things people are meant to do and can have some meaning. Having a house doing nearly everything for you truly is dehumanizing. When he describes the houses jobs he makes them sound useless. The movements are useless because there are no people in the house, due to what Bradbury suggests was an atomic bomb by writing that the house was the only one not destroyed in a whole city, and there was a green radioactive glow throughout the city. Another way bradbury showed the house was destructive was when

The story opens with this sentence, “In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would” (1). This first sentence personifies the house and demonstrates its inner motives. The house’s goal is to please its inhabitants. It wakes everyone up, cooks breakfast, provides information about the day, and tells everyone their schedule. These actions give a first glimpse into the house’s love for its family. Suggesting that the house’s family has died, the narrator states, “But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels” (1). At 10:15, the suspicion is confirmed, “The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places…. The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer” (2). The house is alone and thus, has lost its purpose. Unable to accept this fact, the house continues to try to please its family.

It is revealed that the dog is in fact dead and has been stuffed, which doesn't give a nice impression of the house.

“August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” is a story written by Ray Bradbury. The story opens in a living room of a well technologically advance house, where a clock which is voice activated yells out the time, making sure everyone gets up, and also makes breakfast, cleans, and does just about all the household things you are to do. After we read about all the things the house does, we start to notice that the house is empty, which then leads us to learn about the silhouettes on the walls of the house, which we can infer, based on our knowledge of bombs that this is from some type of nuclear bomb. As we read on we learn that the house is the only house left standing in a pile of ruins. After a while the voice in the house starts to play one of Mrs. McClellan favorite poems, which is ironic given the type of situation that the house is unaware that has taken place, the poems talks about nature and how it will still move on and not care that mankind has wiped itself out completely. After the poem, the mood of the story changes the house catches on fire and even with all of its technology it still can’t stop the fire and burns down, the only thing that remains is a wall, which holds the clock that just keeps repeating the date August 5, 2026. From reading the story I think the author plays with the idea that nature is the only thing that can go along its track without any human interactions.

In the pieces Brave New World and “There Will Come Soft Rains” a cloud of unacknowledgement dreads over the worlds. Whether it’s the ignorance of the machines still working for their masters, (who are currently burned into the outer walls of the house from nuclear hellfire) or the Soma addicted civilians of London. They both tell of a world completely corrupted. Brave New World tells the story of a corrupted government brainwashing its people-- a mental corruption. While “There Will Come Soft Rains” tells of a psychical corruption with the remnants of a nuclear holocaust.

“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury is significantly affected by the setting. Setting is the time and place actions in the story occur in. The setting of a story can affect the atmosphere or mood that the story is told in. In this case, the narrator is the house. It is a very interesting take on the setting around it and provides greater detail of what occurs each day.

The story There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury would be very different if it was located in Nigeria. This is because the rituals in of the everyday lives of Nigerians are not at all similar to the daily rituals that this story shows. The house would probably make breakfast in the morning, as the story says, but the house would make a different breakfast, not “eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk”. Nigeria is a poor country so the preexistent family would not have had such a breakfast. After breakfast, “It was raining outside.

As the reader continues to read it becomes clear that this house is the main character of the story. Bradbury considers both the qualities and shortcomings of technology. The house has been alienated but doesn’t even realize the damage that has been done. This presents the reader with some questions: What happened to the people?

The year is 2026 there is not a soul to be seen. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The clock is always ticking but is never heard. It is a dreary day filled with a steady drizzle of rain. All the humans are gone ,but life still goes on. The rain is slowly destroying the house. The only occupant is the lonesome dog. Since the house is not tended to it is slowly fading. Machine is still prospering ,even though man has fallen to itself.

This literary analysis was definitely one of the most challenging essays I have written thus far since I have been a college student. It caused a bit of a sleep deficit and writers’ block. This is not meant to be a complaint. This assignment required a significant amount of brainstorming and work in a short period of time, and the work of literature I chose, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, was an extremely brief short story. Nevertheless, this assignment was beneficial for teaching my classmates and me how to properly analyze a work of literature and how to trace a work’s “thread” throughout the whole piece of “fabric” (the work of literature).

In 1920, Sara Teasdale wrote “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about “There Will Come Soft Rains”. This poem is an explain of how she felt about the relationship between people and earth. “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a poem that expresses a strong theme and has use of sound devices and figurative language.

When an author is writing a short story, symbolism, allegory, and fantasy are major resources for the writer to achieve compression. Compression gives the writer a chance to say as much as possible and as briefly as possible. Symbolism is when something means more than what it is. A symbol can be a person, an object, or a situation. An allegory is a story that has a hidden meaning beneath the surface. Fantasy is a nonrealistic story that goes beyond the bounds of known reality. In the short the story “There Will Come Soft Rains” symbolism is shown the most. Two other things writers look at when writing a story is humor and irony. Short stories that employ humor use the technique irony. There are two types of irony, verbal irony and dramatic

In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury, a living house of the future is left alone standing until it is found in a battle against mother nature. The depressed house stands in Allendale, CA on AUgust 4, 2026. It has been programmed to be convenient and self sufficient. It cooks, it cleans, and it does your laundry. Every morning it cooks for its master which is no longer there. A nuclear bomb has wipes out the city full of buildings and people, except for this one house. Nature somehow keeps in check, as the house solemnly cooks and cleans. Robot mice buzz across the floor removing any rubbish from the pristine floor. The house is reminded of being alone as the shadows of the diseased are stained into the cement. The sky casts a

In the past two weeks we have read numerous short stories and poems. A common theme in these passages is society creates its own self destruction. In “By the Waters of Babylon”, the images of the future New York give a sense of annihilation of the human race by a bomb. In “Nightmare Number 3”, the technology they used to satisfy their everyday needs turned on them and started to destroy the human race. In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Teasdale constantly refers to human destruction by other humans. In Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains”, the depictions of the outline of ashes on the walls that resemble two kids playing ball gives imagery that a bomb was dropped and the family was eradicated by their own humankind. So, throughout these