Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Themes in Poetry

Supposedly the vast majority of classic poetry can be categorized as revolving around one of the following themes: death, loneliness, or immortality.
Since so many poems are odes to love and beauty, I would have to classify them as being about immortality. Rejection, obviously, is both death (of hope) and loneliness.
What are other major subjects for poetry?

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