There Will Come Soft Rains Presentation

Poem title and author

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale (1918)

Poem setting

A peaceful spring day: frogs, robins, plum trees, swallows

Poem mood

Calm, serene, rejuvenating — but with chilling indifference to humanity

Key chilling line

"Not one would mind… if mankind perished utterly"

Meaning of low fence wire

Man-made structures remain, but nature reclaims and interacts with them

“robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence wire”

Main theme of poem

Nature thrives and continues regardless of human conflict or extinction

Story title and author

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

Story setting

Post-nuclear destruction — an automated house keeps running after humans are gone

Role of technology in story

The house performs daily tasks for absent humans, symbolizing human achievement and fragility

Cause of the house’s destruction

A natural accident: wind blows, a tree branch falls, solvent ignites, fire consumes the house

Connection between poem and story

Both show nature’s indifference and its ability to outlast humanity and technology

Shared big idea

Humanity is fragile; nature quietly persists, reclaiming its space even after civilization ends