There Will Be Soft Rains

1. Vocabulary

1.1. sublime-magestic, grand

1.2. oblivious-unmindful

1.3. capillaries-pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore

1.4. incinerator-a furnace or apparatus for burning trash

1.5. regiment-military; a unit of ground forces

1.6. silhouette-two dimensional representation of the out line of an object

1.7. paranoia-a mental disorder described to supposed hostility of others

1.8. psychopathic-insane

2. Questions

2.1. 12.Tech can be good and bad

2.2. 11.Today is August 5, 2026

2.3. 10.Doors spring shut, water rats spray water

2.4. 9.McClellan

2.5. 8.In the nursery, watched films on the glass walls

2.6. 7.Play cards,eat sandwiches, and drink martinis

2.7. 6.The mice cleaned uo the remains

2.8. 5.No one is feeding him and he has radiation posioning

2.9. 4.Intruders, foxes, sparrows, and the dog

2.10. 3.They were killed in a nuclear blast.

2.11. 2.The outline of the family members

2.12. 1.The house is a smart house. It is fully automated, robot mice, and TV walls in the nursery.

3. Plot Summary

3.1. The poem describes how, once man is destroyed because of a war, nature will go on without man, as if nothing had happened. The rest of the neighborhood is charred, and a radioactive glow hangs over the city.

4. Quote Analysis

4.1. “And the voices wailed Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone.”

4.1.1. This is describing when the bombs fell. The bombs let the world on fire. Pretty much everyone is being consumed by the flames.