Evidence Page Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence or paraphrase number supports ideas or argument Poem—"Not one would mind, neither bird nor This is a key line from the Sara Teasdale poem that tree, / If mankind perished utterly; And Spring the house reads in "There Will Come Soft Rains." / By the end of the book, the poem's prediction has herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely 310 come true: every human is dead, even the family know that we were gone." dog. The house is destroyed, but the sun still dawns on schedule. Nature goes on, with or without us. Bradbury took the title of his story from this Poem—There will Come Soft Rains poem—The house randomly chooses this poem and it happens to be the lady of the house’s favorite. Was the choice random? Would a precisely programmed house make a random choice? I think it was quite purposeful. The poem choice is ironic. It illustrates the 310 Description of the nursery, nursery walls detachment to nature much like the nursery she “The glowed” paragraph describes a fantasy vision of decorated that had pictures/murals of fake nature. nature—yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal The imagery of the poem is echoed and expanded substance. walls were glass. They looked in the story. “The out upon color and fantasy.” In the poem nature is happy the war is over and ten the house began to die.” does not even care that all humans are gone. “At wind blew. A falling tree bough crashed “The through the kitchen window.” The following four paragraphs describe the fight 311 between the house and nature. The scene with the fire taking consuming the house until finally the tree branch falls into the The placement of the poem was purposeful to house. Bradbury. He is contradicting the statement of the
Evidence or paraphrase Page number Elaboration / explanation of how this evidence supports ideas or argument Poem—"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." 310 This is a key line from the Sara Teasdale poem that the house reads in "There Will Come Soft Rains." By the end of the book, the poem's prediction has come true: every human is dead, even the family dog. The house is destroyed, but the sun still dawns on schedule. Nature goes on, with or without us. Poem—There will Come Soft Rains Description of the nursery, “The nursery walls glowed” paragraph describes a fantasy vision of nature—yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal substance. “The walls were glass. They looked out upon color and fantasy.” 310 Bradbury took the title of his story from this poem—The house randomly chooses this poem and it happens to be the lady of the house’s favorite. Was the choice random? Would a precisely programmed house make a random choice? I think it was quite purposeful. The poem choice is ironic. It illustrates the detachment to nature much like the nursery she decorated that had pictures/murals of fake nature. The imagery of the poem is echoed and expanded in the story. “At ten the house began to die.” “The wind blew. A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window.” The scene with the fire taking consuming the house until finally the tree branch falls into the house. 311 In the poem nature is happy the war is over and does not even care that all humans are gone. The following four paragraphs describe the fight between the house and nature. The placement of the poem was purposeful to Bradbury. He is contradicting the statement of the