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| [[Image:El amor y la muerte(English Love and Death) is a plate 10 from Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya..jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Love]] and [[death]] are two recurring themes in [[art history|art]] and [[History of literature|literary history]] | [[Image:El amor y la muerte(English Love and Death) is a plate 10 from Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya..jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Love]] and [[death]] are two recurring themes in [[art history|art]] and [[History of literature|literary history]] | ||
| <br>Illustration: ''[[El amor y la muerte]]'' (English: Love and Death) is plate 10 from the ''[[Caprichos]]'' by [[Francisco Goya]].]] | <br>Illustration: ''[[El amor y la muerte]]'' (English: Love and Death) is plate 10 from the ''[[Caprichos]]'' by [[Francisco Goya]].]] | ||
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"The death ... of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world" is a dictum by Edgar Allen Poe, from his essay "The Philosophy of Composition". |
Illustration: El amor y la muerte (English: Love and Death) is plate 10 from the Caprichos by Francisco Goya.
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A theme is a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic; a recurring idea; a motif. In music it refers to the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
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Etymology
From Old French tesme (French: thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (tithemi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do).
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