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The speaker's attitude towards the
poem is hopeful at first, but it then
becomes grim and dark as the poem progresses.
From reading this poem we can predict that the poem will be about bad times and how you can move on from them.
In this poem, there is a shift after the second stanza. The first six sentences were about nature and then it starts to shift to war.
-"And frogs in pools, singing at night," Personification
-"Robins will wear their feathery fire," Personification
-"And spring herself, when she woke at dawn," Personification
-"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground," Smell Imagery
Stanza 1: nature thrives
Stanza 2: rebirth and nature is compared to a song on repeat
Stanza 3: Nature is carefree with
no rules
Stanza 4: Nature can survive without mankind
Stanza 5: Nature does not benefit or depend on mankind
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
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;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
The title is a preview of the mood. The
rainy days are dark and gloomy, like
the poem. It could also be figurative,
the rain being the teardrops of mankind.
The rhyme scheme consists of many couplets (AABBCCDDEFGG), this helps connect certain ideas to relate them with each other.
The overall theme is that nature will continue without us, we may fight to gain something but in the end we are the only ones to perish.