Poetry Packet - TPCASTT Themes

1. "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare
            True love cannot be reliant on superficial qualities. 

2. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
             Love can make a person look at the world as more pleasant than it is.

3. "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne
             Although death is often seen as the ultimate end, mortality remains a mystery.

4. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick
             Time is fleeting.

5. "The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet
             One may never be completely content with the work they have produced. 

6. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
            People yearn to control the passage of the time. 

7. "Sound and Sense" by Alexander Pope
            Writing is a cultivated skill that cannot develop without being put into practice.

8. "The World is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth
            Although people and nature are interconnected, the relationship is forgotten at times. 

9.  "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
             Beauty is found in the balance of opposing forces.

10. "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
             Nothing is invincible. 

11. "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be" by John Keats
             Mortality remains a question in the minds of many. 

12. "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
              Children have the ability to bring out one’s own whimsicalness. 

14. "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe
              Love is powerful.

15. "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman
             Self sacrifice is a mark of great leadership.

16. "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" by Emily Dickinson
              Life as a whole is often ignorant to the death of an individual. 

17. "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
              In human consciousness, pain is unavoidable. 

18. "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
             The living often search for reasons to justify the deaths of others in order to find comfort.

19. "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
             People can be resistive to change. 

20. "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
              A person can never be truly unbias, as experiences often cloud their objectiveness.