There Will Come Soft Rain Figurative Language

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Life was complex during the early 1900’s. The authors show a common theme in both of these two poems. They show life and death and they also use common figurative language. Nancy Willard and Sara Teasdale use personification and metaphors throughout the poems. Life and death were explored throughout both, “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room” and There Will Come Soft Rains,” but they are told from two different perspectives about it. The most important themes that they both show is life and death and the second one is common figurative language.

First of all, Nancy Willard revealing life and death pretty well in “Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room.” This is shows by sunflowers moving into the sunny room. In the stanza, sunflowers were “arranging themselves at the window.” The poet is showing personification shows that the sunflowers are trying to “arrange themselves” so that they can all get the same amount of sunlight. Also, the poet interprets metaphors when were was passing the time of the sun, the sunflowers, “count the steps of the sun.” This metaphor is revealing that people that are getting older need to take in down a notch and not do as much as they already do. All of these are interpreting that when things are living, life gets harder and that it is a hard time in life. Death is a hard time in life and death is hard for people to understand. …show more content…

In her piece, “There Will Come Soft Rain,” she writes about nature and what is living and growing. In the last stanza is shown personification, “And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn. Would scarcely know that we were gone.” By personifying the season Spring, she shows that nature is just like people. Sara Teasdale shows metaphors of “soft rains” that is falling after death happens. To conclude, death is a hard

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