"'There Will Come Soft Rains'" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and Shadow, published in 1920. The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. The poem also alludes to the idea of Human extinction by war, which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later. The poem reads:
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
The poem has six stanzas, each made up of a rhyming couplet.
The poem is also notably featured in the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name.
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"'There Will Come Soft Rains'" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and...
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"'There Will Come Soft Rains'" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and Shadow, published in 1920. The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. The poem also alludes to the idea of Human extinction by war, which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later. The poem reads:
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
The poem has six stanzas, each made up of a rhyming couplet.
The poem is also notably featured in the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name.
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