Although the poems depict events and characters from Hindu mythology, the narratives are set in the local landscapes of the islands.

The poem depicts a child fantasising that he saves his mother from dacoits.

Each poem depicts different events in the lives of those figures.

His earliest poems depict provincial Moldavia as a desolate and unsettling place.

His poems depict the brutality of war, and suggest that love is the only force that can effectively defend a human being against it.

The poem depicts the relationship between Lucy and nature through a complex opposition of images.

Each poem depicts some aspect of the countryside, history, or legends of Bohemia.

Parallel to this, the poem depicts the day turning from morning to afternoon and into dusk.

This poem depicts a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded.

The original poem was rather short at c. 600 lines, depicting the love story of Daphnis and Phyllis.