10 Excerpt from There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire(5)
Whistling their whims on a low fence wire:
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done,
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly (10)
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone
How does the poet develop the theme of this poem?
a )

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.

the bazaar because it represents the inaccessible land of freedom to the narrator. mangan’s sister because she represents domesticity and routine to the narrator. the marketplace because it represents the suburban lifestyle to the narrator. the church because it represents spiritual healing and renewal to the narrator.