Theme Analysis Examples

If i can stop one heart from breaking

• A wonderful life creed. What you do does matter to someone, somewhere. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
• By: Emily Dickinson

Theme of poem 1

• The way to have lived a fulfilled life is to have changed the life of at least one other person or to have helped someone else.

How i found it

• Key words from poem one: "matter," "life," "pain," "aching," and "vain"

Hope is the thing with feathers

• "Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all,
• By: Emily Dickinson

Theme of Poem 2

• Hope is never lost.
• Key words/phrases: "hope," "without," and"never stops"

I'm nobody! WHo are you?

• I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd advertise -- you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell one's name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
• By: Emily Dickinson

Theme of poem 3

• It is easier and better to be unknown and happy than to be a known someone who has to work to not be taken out of their place of significance.
• Key Words/phrases: "nobody," "dreary," "somebody," "public"

sometimes with the heart

• Sometimes with the Heart Seldom with the Soul Scarcer once with the Might Few—love at all.
• By: Emily Dickinson

Theme of poem 4

• It is often hard to find love and to love.
• Key words: "seldom," "few," "scarcer," and "love"