There Will Come Soft Rains By Wilfred Owen

These many poems that we read in the class all contain different themes in each poem. Both Wilfred Owen’s and Sara Teasdale’s poem holds a theme of their own. We as a class read two Wilfred Owen poems, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” and one named “There will come Soft Rains,” by Sara Teasdale. All these poems that we read have different themes and many could say that there is no similarity in between them. In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Wilfred Owen’s theme was that“It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” He mentions “Many lost their boots but limped on, blood shod,” which in reality has the characteristics of war. It summarizes thats everyone who died risking their life in trying to fight for their own country never gives up. Wilfred Owen uses many literary devices but the one sentence that stood out was when the poet wrote,“His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin.” This is an example of a simile because it is comparing the dead hanging face of a soldier and all the sins that he laid is now part of the devils. His next poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” is all about what happens after the war. When everything is quite and peaceful as the sun shines to embrace that the war as end and all the horror is gone. The poet says “The horror of war and the pity of war,” means the all the horror in the war is now gone
But on the other hand, “There Will come Soft Rains,” written by Sara Teasdale had another theme which is totally different from Wilfred Owen.In the poem, Teasdale uses imagery and personification of the