"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale
"There will come soft rain 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."
Rhyme: I love rhyme even though it is the words that give the true meaning of the poem. Rhyme gives a poem musicality.
Mankind at worst: It is a shame mankind put Earth's beauty to a disgraceful, polluted metropolis where nobody has the time or confidence to enjoy the little beauty of nature left. This poem describes a futuristic scene in which humans, with their wars and self interest, eventually kill everybody. And when this happens, the Earth would hardly care or remember.
Tone: The tone is pretty depressing but totally educating. Many people think really long and hard when depressed and therefore may learn something new in any aspect of life.
Connect: I too am ashamed I am part of the desecration of this wonderful paradise that is Earth. And I am ashamed the human race would fight until every last one is erased from existence, but maybe it's for the best. It's Darwinism. And we may not be fit to survive.
Diction: Perish - connotation of complete destruction
There's a mix of very happy words that describe a very unhappy state and it's very contradictory.
4 comments:
I agree with what you said about people not enjoying nature. Many are too sucked up in their own lives to look around and "smell the roses" or are too ignorant to even care.
this poem was a very good choice. i agree with your blog and i also agree with Cheyennes comment. everyone is so caught up in their selves and the war and so many other things that nobody takes a minute out of there lives to see how things may be effecting other people and there lives, how war is effecting hundreds and thousands of people and as Cheyenne said, no body seems to care or there just too ignorant. some people just need to pause, relax, and enjoy living LIFE.
Ted, really good response and I love the rhyme too! I definitely agree that the poem is talking about the future when we eventually will all be dead. It is a shame that us humans are too busy to even appreciate what life has given us. Everybody is all caught up in trying to be better than others and trying to have more power. This is destructing us as the days pass by and it really is sad that we feel we have better things to do than to stop for a second and seriously enjoy the nature in life.
I totally agree with what your response is. People are too caught up in silly things and things that aren't important and don't stop and notice the beauty in nature or just the beauty around them. I also really liked how you sepreated your response into different subjects! freakin overachiever! awesome job seriously
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