There Will Come Soft Rains
by Ray Bradbury

There Will Come Soft Rains: Situational Irony 1 key example

Key Examples in There Will Come Soft Rains

Situational Irony
Explanation and Analysis—Teasdale's Poem:

One of the story’s central ironies lies in its tension between promises of nature’s recovery and manmade destruction. As night descends upon the McClellans’ household, the home’s robotic voice reads aloud Sara Teasdale’s poem:

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.