I originally intended to write a single poem about Death, mostly commentary about how life is often cut too short by war and murder.  I picked poetry because I thought, Mary Shelley made illustrated poems, why not?  But as I wrote I realized that I can do more than make commentary on dark subject such as death, but also things like beauty and nature.  So in the end I wrote a series of poems that used lines from various poems by famous poets to make comments about these topics of Life, Death, Beauty, and Nature.