Simile

Fill in the following sentences in your comment. Try to be creative and try to go for a comparison that is unexpected or makes us see the subject in a new way:

Don't tell my mom that her cookies taste like __________________.
Watching Katya dance is like ________________________.
The crumbs left on my plate are like _______________________.

Subject vs. Theme

In class we talked about the difference between a poem's subject and its theme. Give me an example of a work of art--poem, story, film, song--where the subject is quite different from the theme. For example, I am posting a photo by photographer, Rob Hann. The subject of the photo is simple: football uniforms. But the theme is more complicated. By looking at the photo you get a sense of loneliness or absence, you see the outline of young boys' bodies without the boys there. Perhaps the theme of the photo is adolescence or manhood, how the uniform makes the boy into a man.

You may include a link to the work of art if you have one.

Dead Poets Society--You Must Set Him Among the Dead

What does T.S. Eliot mean by the following quote? What does the quote have to do with the movie's themes and its title?

"No poet, no artist of any art, has complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation, is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."

-from Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent"