4. Themes and Their Reflection in Creative Works
In order to deliver ideas or messages to the audiences, the creator employs and adds a certain style in their works. The style contains creative and imaginative
language that is intended to create a theme. A theme is portrayed as the general idea or argument in creative works; literary works or non-literary works. Thus,
theme can be defined as the main idea or central idea that has a significant meaning in creative works. According to Ryan and Bernard 2003: 85, a theme is
identified as one of the fundamental devices in creative works which reflect in explicit and implicit idea. He added that explicit theme states directly by the
creator while implicit theme is implied through such a story. In the other hands, Opler stated via Ryan and Bernard 2003: 86, theme is a key to analyze culture in
such creative works. Thus, it can be assumed that themes play a prominent role in communicating idea
s in order to shape human‘s perspectives even to design culture.
Furthermore, themes can be reflected in many ways, such as through plot, setting, character and characterization. According to Leech and Short 2007: 207,
themes are embedded in incident and mode of description which are bounded with plot in the story of creative works. Moreover, the style that is used to convey
themes by the creator through plot, setting, character and characterization is embedded with figurative language. Leech and Short 2007: 336 states that a
figure of speech in the creative works is connected with the theme which can be interpreted in reality. For instance, in Elizabeth Barett Browning‘s Poem 1806-
1861 How Do I Love Thee, the themes of reality lover can be presented as follows.
How do I love thee, let me count the ways I love thee to depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out the sight For the ends of being and ideal grace
I love thee to level of every day‟s Browning, 1806-1861 The author uses figures of speech in the form of hyperbole. The word I
love thee to level of every day‟s is used to reflect the themes in the poem since it can describe the reality theme of the lover. It means a very deep of love to hisher
lover. By employing hyperbole, the author runs the implicit theme that the love is everlasting. It also reflects that love to the lover is the central theme of
Browning‘s poem How Do I Love Thee. Thus, the use of figures of speech in reflecting the themes in creative works conjures up the reader to not to take the
literal meaning of the language, yet to look beyond what is said.
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