![Because the text in the image is a bit squiggly, here's the transcript of the poem in plain text.
'There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
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.'
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This artwork was inspired by Sophia Light's "Winding Down", a short story in the SCP Foundation universe ( [link] ) Before reading it, It is recommended to read this first for more background info ( [link] )
Set on a dying world which was destroyed by a virus that turn organisms into clockwork machines, this illustration took the scene where Agent Ketterson, the mostly-converted protagonist, hug his fiancee/ wife who was reduced into an automated gardener. In this succumbing last settlement in the empty Siberian tundra, she sings Sara Teasdale's poem "There will come soft rain"](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/050/650/7cd.jpg "Sara Teasdale: There Will Come Soft Rains")
Poetry
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Poetry is a form of literature, often using rhythmic styles, in a similar way to music
Origin
Poetry as an art form is thought to have possibly predated literacy. Some forms of poetry has been traced back to around 1200 BC, with the Indian[1] Vedas[2] and Zoroaster's[3] Gathas[4] around 675 BC, and appears to have been composed in poetic form to aid memorization and oral transmission, in prehistoric and ancient societies. Other forms of poetry developed directly from folk songs with many versions of poetry intended for listening, rather than reading.
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Many Classical thinkers used classification in order to assess the quality of poetry. For example, the existing fragments of Aristotle's[5] Poetics[6] shows three genres of poetry--the epic, the comic, and the tragic--and develop rules to distinguish the highest-quality poetry in each genre. Aristotle's work later went on to define the basis for most early poetry. Due to the popularity of poetry as an art form, it eventually developed into one of the most profilic forms of literature.
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