There Will Come Soft Rains Analysis

Question 0

What color are the plum trees mentioned in line 4?

Answer 0

White

Question 1

In line 2 of the poem, what is circling the narrator?

Answer 1

Swallows with their shimmering sound

Question 2

What would not care if mankind ‘perished utterly’?

Answer 2

Trees and birds

Question 3

Who wrote this piece?

Answer 3

Sara Teasdale

Question 4

Who wrote a short story based off this piece?

Answer 4

Ray Bradbury

Question 5

This work is an example of a(n)…

Answer 5

Compact poem

Question 6

This compact poem is about what?

Answer 6

The ending of human life and the continuation of the rest of the natural world

Question 7

How did the humans come to die out?

Answer 7

World War

Question 8

How long is this poem?

Answer 8

Twelve lines long

Question 9

The first six lines of the poem could be described as:

Answer 9

Soothing

Question 10

The last six lines of the poem could be described as:

Answer 10

Grave; depressing

Question 11

What literary devices does Teasdale use to create the thought of “soft rains”?

Answer 11

Soft vowel sounds and liquid consonants

Question 12

The first lines contains what?

Answer 12

Synesthesia

Question 13

What is synesthesia?

Answer 13

The description of one form of sense of perception by reference to another

Question 14

“Spring herself when she awoke at dawn,” is an example of what literary device?

Answer 14

A metaphor: personification

Question 15

Line five brings about a hint of what?

Answer 15

Anthropomorphism

Question 16

Which lines contain alliteration?

Answer 16

1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Question 17

Which lines include strong medial caesuras?

Answer 17

3, 7, and 9

Question 18

What is a caesura?

Answer 18

A pause in the middle of a line of poetry

Question 19

Where can the weaker caesuras be found?

Answer 19

The first two lines

Question 20

What is the theme of the poem?

Answer 20

Apocalypse

Question 21

When did the First World War begin?

Answer 21

1914