“There Will Come Soft Rains” a poem by Sara Teasdale

[Pages:1]"There Will Come Soft Rains" a poem by Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows calling 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.

1. Is this a happy poem or a sad poem? Why? 2. The poem was written during World War One (1914-1918 -- trench warfare, barbed wire, poison gas). The poem seems to describe what used to be a battlefield. What has happened here? 3. What is the theme of the poem; in other words, what is this poem saying about life, the world, mankind's relation to the world? 4. "The world would be better off if mankind did not exist." Would Sara Teasdale agree with this statement?

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