Dystopic Alliterations
- ddimitrannist
- 20 Νοε 2015
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What is Alliteration? It is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. The repetition of the same sounds brings the poem into life. Can you find examples of alliteration in the poem below?
There Will Come Soft Rains, by 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 white plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire 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;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains
Did you know? Sara Teasdale wrote her poem some time after the end of First World War, but in 1950 Ray Bradbury had this inspiring poem embedded in his short story called "August 4 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”. Bradbury's story is about a computer-controlled house which remains intact after a nuclear holocaust
If you want more, go read the story or listen to an audio by Leonard Nimoy!
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