What does the house recommend in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," the house asks Mrs McClellan what poem she would like to hear. As the family are not there, (they have been killed by a nuclear blast), the house recommends Mrs McClellan's favourite poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains," by Sara Teasdale. (It is also worth noting that the story is named after this poem which demonstrates its overall significance).

Teasdale wrote this poem in the aftermath of World War...

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," the house asks Mrs McClellan what poem she would like to hear. As the family are not there, (they have been killed by a nuclear blast), the house recommends Mrs McClellan's favourite poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains," by Sara Teasdale. (It is also worth noting that the story is named after this poem which demonstrates its overall significance).

Teasdale wrote this poem in the aftermath of World War One and uses it to argue the futility of human conflict. For Teasdale, the world will continue even if humans wipe each other out:

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly.

It is ironic that the house would recommend this poem to Mrs McClellan because in Bradbury's story,  humankind really has wiped itself out and the house, just like Teasdale's portrayal of nature, has no idea what has happened. In using Teasdale's poem, then, Bradbury argues that nuclear war has achieved nothing and that the world, depicted here as the house, will go on without humans in it.