I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes not at all.
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design it looks to the community.
Shakespeare is all big themes like the most amazing love or the most scary war.
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now though there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes lots more high-concept categories and questions.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at and a lot more urgently is those who fail.