What Is the Topic?
The topic of a reading selection is, quite simply, what it's ALL about. What is the topic of each of the following short excerpts from the works of some great poets?
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
by Lord Byron
The topic is _________________________.
woods
sea
nature
music
THE mountain held the town as in a shadow
I saw so much before I slept there once:
I noticed that I missed stars in the west,
Where its black body cut into the sky.
Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wall
Behind which I was sheltered from a wind.
by Robert Frost
The topic is the _________________________.
mountain
sky
town
wind
But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still his master's own,
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth--
Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth:
by Lord Byron
The topic is _________________________.
honesty
dogs
masters
life
Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last—far off—at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The topic is _________________________.
seasons
facts
faith
anger
Sources:
http://oldpoetry.com/
http://www.online-literature.com/byron/
http://www.readbookonline.net/
http://www.poemtree.com/
