summary of there have come soft rains by john philip johnson
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John Philip Johnson is a famous poet. He has written many poems. One of them is There have come soft rains.
Explanation:
- He talks about a world war in a very light manner in this poem.
- He describes how everyone was scared and behaved tensely even hearing the bell.
- He also elaborated on a beautiful lady Annette who he keeps noticing during the bomb drills.
- Even his mother knows how the poet keeps talking about this young lady for hours.
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Answer:
The comic there have come soft rains explains us everything visually
here are some of the key points which describes the comic in easy words
Explanation:
line : In the kindergarten during the cold war
meaning : In the kindergarten school during the tension or fearness of the real war to happen .
line : mid day late bell jolted us
meaning : a bell in late afternoon alarmed us
line : where we were sent single file into the hallway
they were then directly in queue sent into the hallway
where we sat pressing our heads between our knees
in the hallway they were practicing what to do in the situation of real bombing . (bomb drill)
during one of the bomb drills , Annette was standing
during one of the bomb surviving practices , a girl named Annette was standing.
My mother said I would talk on and on about her, about how pretty she was.
the narrators mother even complained that he talks every time about her , about how pretty she was .
i still remember her that day , curly hair and pretty dress
the narrator still remembered her that day curly hair and a pretty dress.
looking perturbed the way little children do.
Annette was looking worriedly how the little children practice the bomb drills .
Why Annette? There’s nothing to be upset about—
narrator tells Annette that there is nothing to worry in just bomb drills
The bombs won’t get us,
they are not real bombs , they are just sound effects , they are bomb drills , we will not die .
I’ve seen what’s to come—
The speaker has seen the young children, still waiting for the bomb, turn into old people.
it is the days, the steady , pounding of days, like gentle rain,
'Gentle rain' refers to the steady monotony ( repeated , boring) days passing by.
that will be our undoing
The speaker is talking about how the persistent ( non stop , repeated) fear of a bomb attack will accompany people till they become old and then die.
by Sparsh Arya , a student of The Indian High School