Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0805 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Theme Against Subject
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The idea
A subject is what a poem is about; a theme is what it says about that. Sonnet seventy-three's subject is ageing and its theme is a claim about what ageing does to love. Options confusing the two are common, and the subject-level option is always the weaker.
In practice
About, against says-about.
Where people slip
The subject-level option is the weak one.
Your place on the trail
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