sources of inspiration for a short story
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Sources of inspiration for a short story
There Will Come Soft Rains
1. Whatdoyouassociatewiththetitle“ThereWillComeSoftRains”?
2. Describethepicturebelowandexplainthelinktothetitle.
3. ReadthepoembyAmericanpoetSaraTeasdale(1884–1933)andanswerthefollowingquestions:• Whatisthesituation?Describethesettingandexplainitshistoricalcontext.• Whathashappened/willhappen?Howrealisticdoyoubelievesuchasituationtobe?• Whatisthelinktothepaintingabove?• Analysetheimageryusedinthepoem.
There Will Come Soft Rains (by Sara Teasdale, 1920)
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools, singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
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And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
2 swallow Schwalbe – 4 tremulous shivering, trembling – 5 robin Rotkehlchen – 6 whim mood, dream – 10 to perish to die (out) – 10 utterly completely – 12 scarcely hardly
4. Imaginethatyouareafamousshortstorywriter.YouhavebeeninspiredbySaraTeasdale’spoemandthe
pictureabove.Discusswithapartnerapossibleplotoutlineforashortstoryonthesametheme.
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Modul 1 – What is a short story?1.5a