TPCASTT Themes

Sonnet 130: There exists love in which physical attraction is of no significance

The Passionate Shepard to His Love: When one loves an individual and everything about them, particularly their environment, it is then that living together and a greater relationship is plausible.

To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time: Beauty is fleeting and should be enjoyed while it is possessed

Death Be Not Proud: Death, for all its inescapable-seeming nature, isn't permanent

The Author To her Book: In any art, the work is always imperfect to its creator

To His Coy Mistress: In love there is no time for games, seeing as the vigor of youth is very temporary

Sound and Sense: Great writing flows from a nebulous sense and understanding of what makes beautiful art

The World is Too Much With Us: The beauty of nature is so evident and omnipresent that humans do not even realize how beautiful their environment is

She Walks in Beauty: There exists those whose beauty would seem to be a conglomeration of all that is beautiful in this world

Ozymandias: All of man's tests to withstand the passage of time and preserve themselves eventually prove futile.

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be: In the end of everything, things like fame and love will not matter

The Children's Hour: Relish play with children always, and hold that love forever; long after those children have grown up

Annabel Lee: Love, if it is powerful enough, lasts well after death

O Captain!, My Captain: Victory sours with the realization that instrumental players in the struggle to win are dead

I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died:  In death, one realizes the most insignificant things, and that death isn't an experience like people generally imagine

Dover Beach: There exists nothing of significance but an appreciation of the natural splendor of the world

Dulce Et Decorum Est: There is an inherent horror to war, and any beautiful description of it is nothing more than a lie

Mending Wall: There are those that seek seperation so that coexistence might be possible

Mirror: A mirror's true effect isn't to show those that peer into it, but rather to slowly destroy those that over value their own beauty