There Will Come Soft Rains

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Influence

• The poem is quoted, by the main character, in the 2016 film The Forest.
• The poem is also featured in Ray Bradbury's short story of the same name.
• The poem featured in a radio adaptation of the Ray Bradbury Story, as "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains", which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 11 May 1977. The adaptation, for "Narrator, Vocoder and Synthesizer" was by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
• In the video game Fallout 3, a Mister Handy Robot recites this poem for the long dead children of the family he belonged to, the robot itself carrying out its daily routine as in the Bradbury story.
• The Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg used a Russian translation of the poem for the 3rd movement of his Requiem Op. 96.
• The Irish musician Tony Wright used the poem as lyrics for a song of the same name. It was released as part of a double A side charity single for Help Musicians UK.
• The Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds used the poem as lyrics for a song of the same name. The Pacific Lutheran Choir of the West released a recording of it on their album, also of the same name, of works by Ēriks Ešenvalds.