What is the theme in the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”?

A truly horrifying look at the aftermath of a nuclear war. The sole survivor seems to be the poor starving and diseased dog. The house, automated, continues telling the time and anniversaries, but none except the dying dog is there to hear. As depressing as it was, it had a tremendous impact on me, so that 40 years after I read it, when the Navy wanted to base nuclear weapons within less than a mile of my home (at a base the 9/11 terrorists had on their list of potential targets), I organized the opposition, which ultimately convinced the Navy not to build the base.

Explanation:

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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