Figurative Language In There Will Come Soft Rain

Imagine a world without humans nor animals, the only living thing on Earth is nature. The question, however, is would nature outlast life on Earth? In Ray Bradbury’s short story, this was the case for humanity. The evidence of the wind and trees, the language used, and the poem illustrates the following theme for There Will Come Soft Rains: nature and technology will outlast humanity. In Bradbury’s short story, a radioactive explosion occurred, killing humanity and leaving technology and nature. Technology and nature, however, didn’t react to humanity's fate. Instead, nature and technology went on, not noticing that mankind had fallen. Nature’s rotation of wind, precipitation, and sun was still ongoing. Therefore, it had no impact on nature’s cycle. Technology continued as well. For instance, the house continued by going off of it's timed schedule. Nature also outlasted technology, by a tree causing a fire, burning the house. Nature and technology didn’t react, nor notice the change, rather they just adapted to the change.

By the use of an onomatopoeia, the house not only shows the utilization of technology, but as well as nature, because the sun will still rise and the day will still go on, when it says “Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock!” Later on, Bradbury wrote, “And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing.” By referring to the rain as ‘tapping’ on the empty house, nature’s cycle was not affected by the empty, human-less house. The house’s sequence also continued. Bradbury then uses personification again, when he says the pipes of the sink were digesting the the food. Throughout the story, Bradbury uses specific language, and figurative writing to create meaning and establish the