There Will Come Soft Rains(Teasdale) Summary
Sara Teasdale

There Will Come Soft Rains Summary

In 1950, noted science fiction writer Ray Bradbury published his popular collection of futuristic short stories called The Martian Chronicles. That book contains a story called "There Will Come Soft Rains," and it is not by accident that the title is the same as Sara Teasdale's poem published in Flame and Shadow thirty years earlier, in 1920, by MacMillan. Bradbury borrowed the name directly from the poet's work and based his story on a theme...

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