ELEMENTS OF POETRY

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SUBJECT - What a poem is literally about, distinguished from theme, which denotes what the poet is saying about the subject and his or her attitude toward it.


THEME - A poem's attitude toward it's subject; what it says about it's subject. In poetry, the theme is an outgrowth of the subject; the poem's comment on that subject.