In "There Will Come Soft Rains," discuss and explain the use of irony in building and making his story.

Irony is crucial to what Bradbury is trying to communicate in
this excellent story that presents us with a future world that is so advanced that human beings
need do nothing, because technologically advanced robots do everything for them. The most
important moment of irony comes when the computer chooses to read the poem that gives the story
its title, "There will come soft rains." It is highly ironic that the computer would choose to
read a poem about the soft, life-giving rains of spring at a time when the "soft rain" of deadly
radioactivity is falling. It is also ironic that the poem should refer to the death of mankind,
not knowing that it would actually happen. Note what the poem
says:

And not one will
know of teh 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.

Note how the poem explains the
natural world continuing unawares, even after a war and the extinction of the human species, much
as the workings of the house continue after the family has
perished.

Irony, therefore, is central to the story on so many
different levels. Humanity is shown to have reached great technological capabilities but also
technological advances have resulted in humanity's own extinction, thus presenting us with a
severe warning about the dangers of technology.