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There Will Come Soft Rains TPCASTT(R) by Maya Bazzi and Haley Moorman

Title

Sara Teasdale

Shift

Attitude

Paraphrase

Connotation

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

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.

  • Born August 8, 1884
  • 1907-first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper
  • 1933-committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills

Theme

Rhyme Scheme

Title

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.

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