Question

I'm having trouble understanding how I am supposed to identify the theme of creating art. Should I be looking at the environment the author is trying to create or should I be looking in a different direction?

Answer 1

Please explain: "the theme of creating art" = ???

Which titles and/or authors are you trying to deal with?

Answer 2

exactly my problem. I guess im supposed to see a theme developing of some kind of art?

Answer 3

And you have no restrictions about author or title?

Try this:

A poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mus-eacute-e-des-beaux-arts/

And the painting it's referring to:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://matthewsalomon.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/pieter-brueghel-de-oude-de-val-van-icarussmall1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://matthewsalomon.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/w-h-auden-musee-des-beaux-arts/&usg=__-lJRPE_6twtKChicVZtFH6tXdwk=&h=330&w=500&sz=60&hl=en&start=0&sig2=TO6KhdM0aPVP4bGT7mGNxQ&zoom=1&tbnid=IwyfnAxYkqwjZM:&tbnh=161&tbnw=224&ei=nYq_TOuOOIOclge2r_jlBw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmusee%2Bde%2Bbeaux%2Barts%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1C1GGGE_enUS379US379%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D643%26tbs%3Disch:1%26prmd%3Div&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=838&vpy=97&dur=3477&hovh=182&hovw=276&tx=141&ty=92&oei=nYq_TOuOOIOclge2r_jlBw&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0

Does this help?

Answer 4

so what your saying instead of looking at the poem as a poem I should be identifying the environments and situations described in the poem

Answer 5

I think that would work, yes.

It's a very famous pairing -- the painting by Breughel (1558) and the poem about the painting (published in 1940).

The first time I read that poem, I felt as if I were walking around in an art gallery or museum -- and then I found the painting in an art history text.

Answer 6

ok that's what I was thinking. I was reading Emily Dickinson I heard a fly buzz, but just didn't really get the question.

Answer 7

Hmmm. I don't "get" any art connection in her poem!!

Answer 8

i know right
the question posed to me is do I see a theme of developing art