There Will Come Soft Rains Figurative Language

Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Imagine if Einstein was here today, what might he of said about our use of technology and our new advancements of this time? In Ray Bradbury’s stories, it is evident that technology overcomes humans. For instance, in the short story,“There Will Come Soft Rains”, an atomic bomb wipes out everything in Allendale, California except for one house, and one day, a fire hits and burns the house to the ground. Another one of his short stories is “The Pedestrian”, which takes place in a dystopian future where the main character, Leonard Mead, takes a long walk one evening and then gets arrested. Lastly, the short story “All Summer In a Day”,

“The story of humankind and are relationship to the Earth may be seen as a continuing adventure or a tragedy shrouded in mystery. The choice is ours.”- Al Gore. The story of “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury starts out that humans wanted to make the world more advanced. Although, they created a too advanced world that had many glitches that then caused destruction, and many other problems.This now lead to mankind's creations taking over the power of humans because of when their is any form of life power is always taken advantage of. When the power is passed though, humans are destroyed. This leads to Mother Nature killing “the creation” through fire and then despair begins waiting to be filled by new life.“August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury explores the theme of despair that ends life and opens up a spot new life.

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 objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor family once lived. In “Abandoned Farmhouse,” Kooser selects seemingly insignificant relics left behind by each family member to illustrate who these people were and how they lived. The picture he paints is a bleak one and reflects the impoverished life which the residents lived within this now lonely and desolate building.

Through their work of literature, author form their thoughts and cautions into words, hence, the following accounts are enriched in momentous warnings. In the two short stories, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the authors deliver their warnings about human civilization and the harm they’ll bring upon themselves. In the first account, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, Bradbury, through the use of personification, emphasizes how one’s dependence on technology will bring upon one’s demolition. Moreover, in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the author delivers a consequential warning of violent and harmful rituals that should be disposed of. The author successfully delivers this warning through the use of irony. In

Ray Bradbury has written several futuristic stories which portray the advancement of society. “There Will Come Soft Rains” contains technology in the house that we only dream about. Our current homes, compared to the house in Bradbury’s story, seem bland and helpless in comparison.

Bradbury’s imaginings of the futuristic house are bold in attempting to convince the reader that it had human qualities and that the house had an almost above superiority over humans. “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 religion continued senselessly, uselessly.” (Bradbury 2) Bradbury describes the characteristics of the house, what it can do versus what humans would normally do in handling everyday tasks and chores. Almost with a religious cadence, the futuristic house continues to do its set duties.

In John Steinbeck's “The Chrysanthemums”, the setting plays a significant role in the mood and themes of the short story. Set in the 1930s — a period of time also known as the Great Depression — in Salinas Valley, California, the tale revolves around the utter loneliness experienced by the protagonist, Elisa Allen, who is closed off from the “rest of the world” not only by the land in which she lives, but also by the stifling and sexist social expectations for women in her time. The story itself begins with a description of the “high gray-flannel” fog that that surrounds the valley “on every side… like a lid”, with the only light being the “pale, cold sunshine” on the other side of the river. In the middle of this desolate terrain, Mrs. Allen is an anomaly — a sharp, eager woman or whose energy even the “chrysanthemum stems [seem] too small and easy”. The oppressive fog, which makes the “great valley [into] a closed pot”, reminds the reader of how trapped Elisa is; thus, the landscape combines with the imposed gender norms and patriarchal views of the twentieth century to create a melancholy, claustrophobic tone that echoes through the story. From the very beginning, Steinbeck emphasizes the smothering essence of Elisa's life, not only due to the expectations and limitations placed on her because of her gender, but also as a parallel to the restrictive nature of the setting.

The other section where symbolism is evident is “Small Porch in the Woods.” It is divided into several poems. In the first one, there is the mention of “unshifting star” which represents a change that is undisturbed. It is the turning point of the society. Despite the challenges communities face in their life, their ambition leads them towards achieving their objectives in life. The second poem under this section is about a heavy rain that fell in the month of April. Heavy rain is the representation of unhappy moments. The description presented by the narrator shows that it is a sad moment where everything is carried away. Throughout the poem, the rain is seen, as a lesson

The poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale has the same name and same meaning as the Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Sara Teasdale’s poem is reflecting about the Great War (World War I) and how wars will be humanities downfall and nature will carry on. In Ray Bradbury’s story a nuke destroyed a part of California and a technological house carries on. In this passage, I will be talking about how the time periods relate to each author, our current time period, and the future time period.

In the poem and story “There Will Come Soft Rains” they both tell about life without humans. They explain what we will leave behind and the way it will affect the world. They also say how humans being wiped out will be unnoticed. They show us how we would affect the world from the different possibilities. They show us the outcome of the two different possible threats in the time of two very horrible wars.

This house is fully equipped with 21st century technology. Even though there are no people the house works on a specific schedule 24 hours 7 days a week. The story begins normally, alarm clock goes off and right away that’s a sign of people. What was not expected was that there is no humans beings what so ever, it was just one little house by it self, around is just rubble and debree. Since this story is written as if it was in the future, everything is automated. The house is a machine that did everything from cleaning to preparing food. Although people are not present (because of the nuclear holocaust), the house still functions. The climax of the story is when a weak tree bough crashed through the kitchen window, knocking over cleaning solvent over the stove. Instantaneously the kitchen catches fire. The house tried its best to defend itself but as we all know nature is unstoppable. This story is phenomenon; it’s very intense and has you on the edge of your seat the whole time. This story is made for the reader to visualize the actual story, as if you were actually there. All that is left is the lonely house and the wounded dog. What happens in the end really is unexpected and even sad. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain”, He uses various literary devices to warn us about the dangers of technology . Bradbury uses symbols to illustrate that humans are to dependent on technology. He uses the themes of the story to

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 the same way that every person has a different personality, every poem has its own charm. Each poem is special in its own way. For example a poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” (p.780) by Sara Teasdale is about nature and humanity. A poem “Sonnet XXX of Fatal Interview”(p.814), the main topic is love. These poems are different from each other, like different personalities, which I am going to talk about.

“There Will come Soft Rains” written by Ray Bradbury in 1950, is a very colorful work of literature. The descriptions paint beautiful murals, but could there be a warning hidden behind the vivid imagery? The author uses different techniques to convey the message of the story; to alert the readers of the future unfolding in the face of technology.