In the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury and in the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale, both written pieces discuss the idea of humanity ending and nature still being able to survive and thrive without it.

           In the short story the reader is able to see how an overreliance on technology can lead to the destruction of ourselves. Mankind created all this technology which in the long run can lead to our own self-destruction with the detrimental flaws of humans. The story examines the effects of excessive technology and how it can even be the cause of our downfall. However, alongside it is nature, and nature was able to withstand anything thrown at it; nature was able to withstand a nuclear war, human destruction, and the fact that humanity ended. In the end, the big idea was even though the technology was able to resist the self-made destruction for a bit, nature’s power will always be able to surpass it and conquer. This is shown in multiple areas for example, how the tree– nature, started the fire which finally destroyed the last manmade technology on Earth.

           All these main ideas relate back to the poem as well because, in the poem, we are able to see how even when mankind is in the middle of destroying itself, nature will always come back and prosper. The poem was able to infer that nature is able to withstand humans’ self-destruction which also affects nature. Manmade creations/atrocities aren’t able to re-start easily, they need humans; however, nature is able to re-root to be able to regrow itself and not even care what happens with humanity since it just brings nature down anyway. The poem exhibits how Mother Nature didn’t start any problem, they were all man-made. This being said, this is all caused by the flaws and differences of humanity.

           In conclusion, both texts introduced the interesting idea that nature being able to grow despite human’s destruction. In reality, humanity has always created its own destruction and started destructing nature despite nature being here before humans. Nature showed how even with bigger forces humans aren’t able to control, we still try; when it’s not for the better. Nothing is permanent; however, mankind should learn from their actions since the consequences could be detrimental. Nuclear wars, human annihilation, not having any more resources, etc. would be the end of humanity, but nature will still be able to move on and survive.