Valentina Widya S

Theme In Poetry

Theme is the point a writer is trying to make about a

subject.The theme tells what the whole poem is about.Poetry can be the mouthpiece of our feelings

even our minds are speechless with grief or joy

Theme in Poem

Poetry is often full of ideasThe idea in a poem is only part of the total

experience that it communicates.The value and worth of the poem are

determined by the value of total experience, not by the truth or the nobility of the idea itself

Theme In Poem

Poetry sometimes can be powerful experiences of the mind

About how people FEEL rather than how people THINK

Poetry tries, and it often captures exactly the shade of emotion that feels just right to the reader.

The Big Idea

The Big Idea

Feelings, use of senses,emoticons

Personal Experience

Imagery

Things that relate or compare to your THEME

Descriptive words

Theme in A Poem

Theme in a poem is not exactly like the in the others literary works.

To look for the theme we have to find the central thought

To find the central thought we have to paraphrase the poem

Find the denotative and the connotative interpretation

A Red, Red RoseO, my luve’s like a red, red roseThat’s newly sprung in June.O, my luve is like the melodieThat sweetly played in tune

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am IAnd I will luve thee still, my dearTill a’ the seas gang dry

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sunAnd I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o’life shall run

And fare thee weel, my only luveAnd fare thee weel a whileAnd I will come again, my luveThough it were ten thousand mile

Robert Burns 1796

The Sick Rose

O rose, thou art sickThe invisible wormThat flies in the nightIn the howling storm

Has found out thy bedOf crimson joyAnd his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy

William Blake 1794