In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ Teasdale uses a few interesting symbols. Spring will come whether humans are there or not. While this is, in part, a depressing message, Teasdale concludes the poem in such a way that the speaker can’t help but feel at peace with this image of nature, ever-lasting and independent. In fact, if humanity destroys itself, “Not one” kind of non-human life would care that it had occurred. The latter, conflict, is mentioned in the seventh line of the poem when the poet talks about “war.” It alludes to the fact that nature, from birds to trees, don’t know and don’t care about human conflict. In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ the poet engages with themes of nature and conflict. Additionally, they would not notice if every person on the planet disappeared, so little do humans fit into their world. It would not impact them in the slightest. The second half of the poem describes how nature and “Spring” would not notice if all of humankind was at war. The wind, trees, and creatures of the world are in alignment and are content with one another. There are birds circling, singing out their “shimmering sound,” as well as frogs croaking in pools of water at night. The poem begins with the speaker describing a number of scenes of peace. “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale describes the Earth as if it would be without humankind and the lack of regard that Nature and Spring hold for human life.
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