Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Poems and their subjects …

… Something to say by Scott Bartley | The New Criterion. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Some of Brown’s classifications are questionable, and he admits that no taxonomy could capture all the ways poems can treat their subjects. But the virtue of Brown’s discussion is to present poems’ subjects as related to but distinct from their themes. While themes are general and can be shared by multiple poems, a poem’s subject is embedded in its particularized utterance.

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