A Comparison Of There Will Come Soft Rains

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A poem called "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale is very similar to a
short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. They both talk about the same topic except
one takes place in the future while another during 1920. There shared topic is how most
non-human creatures wouldn't know or care if humans were gone. Brabury was inspired by
Sara's idea of this and made his, but in the future. These are their similarities and
Differences.


In Sara's poem the idea of humans being wiped out was almost reality for her. This time
was right after WW1 and about to be The Great Depression. She was saying how if humans
keep fighting each other and wipe each other out, no animal or anything in nature would
care or even notice if we were gone. In Ray's story a automated house was still doing …show more content…

Eventually,
because of lack of people to protect the house it failed and burned down. They both show
how machines and nature wouldn't be moved or even notice if all humans were wiped out.


These poems are different in how Sara's was in her time, 1920 while Ray's took place in 2026.
Elements in Ray's story wouldn't be the same as some in Sara's. Like how machines could keep
their same activities while animals like pets would have to depend on something else. Also,
in Ray's story animals noticed that people were missing, and when the dog died the machine
took it as garbage and threw it away. While in Sara's she said animals would be un-moved.


The concept in these articles are very possible for us in the future. Technology is
evolving at a huge rate where we can say something to an object an it will do it for us.
Also, nuclear bombs in our time are much more powerful in Sara's time period where she
Was scared for her life because of them. So, a event similar to the events these authors
Lived through might happen to use and we should make decision fast before we wipe ourselves
off the

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