The actuality of this story is there are absolutely no humans involved. “There, in the disturbing clash between the expected and the actuality, is where the story’s meaning can usually be found.” (Bradbury) The expected in this story is that the house will actually be run by humans, or at least duties performed for humans that exist within the story. What caught my attention was a blurb before the story that gave insight on the use of Irony. The book source I used actually included “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” as a short story in a collection of short stories. The house worships it’s creator, yet does not need the creator to live. The worship of the humans is like a religion and the robots proceed their rituals even though their gods are gone.” (Lundqvist) This too touches on irony. “The house is an altar for all the technology to worship the family. The final essay source I used, had an interesting comparison between the relationship of technology and humans with religion. We use our resources much quicker than we can regenerate them and it is bound to end badly for us, just as it did for the house. There are more efforts put in place in our day and age than there were when the story was published, but it is still a problem. We take what we have for advantage and one day it will be gone. While Bradbury is using this short story to warn of us of the dependence of society on technology, he uses this symbolism to warn us about using up our resources.
” (Poradzisz) Poradzisz is referencing the end of the story where the house uses up all of its water resource to put out a fire. “Bradbury is warning that mankind is using up all its resources during our “daily routine” and that those resources may be needed in the future. The second essay source digs a little deeper into symbolism. Humans developed this technology to help them, but the technology does not care if humans are around to use its services.” (Fowler) Bradbury wants us to be aware that just as nature will carry on with or without human nature, so will the beast of technology that we have created. Fowler writes, “…as the house continues to function without the aid of the family that owns it. The house ironically reads this poem as a bedtime story to one of the supposed children that lived there at one time.
Teasdale wrote this poem about how nature does not need human involvement to carry on.
Bradbury uses Sara Teasdale’s poem title as his own title, “There Will Come Soft Rains”. The very first essay I researched highlights the use of Irony right from the beginning, literally.
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