"There Will Come Soft Rains"

My first thought: "Oh, the house worries too much! They are probably just sleeping in." The use of onomatopoeia and italics made for a house that was alive. It was as if the house lived as the people did inside of it. As I kept reading on, I came to the realization that there were no occupants living in the house. The house was "afraid that nobody would" wake up because there was no one to be woken up. The house was abandoned, but lived perfectly on as if it still has inhabitants.

What I found kind of inviting at first, became menacing and unsettling. The author wrote that the robotic cleaning mice became "angry at inconvenience," as if the robots could have feelings. This house, once built for convenience for people, was now completely concerned with convenience.

The dog... that was unsettling. Because of the author's use of descriptions such as "The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing... that only silence was here" I was able to visualize this poor, emaciated dog feeling helpless and dying alone.

It is as if life went on without life present.

I almost felt bad for the house because it was the only "living" thing left behind. There were only the charcoal outlines of the people, probably blasted away by an explosion. As said in the poem, nothing seemed to miss humans after they were gone. It is strange that the seemingly peaceful "soft rains" from the poem became the rains that died and couldn't save the house in the end.