For Conrad most of the themes in his books and poems was based off his life experiences and other realistic issues, but is not afraid to indulge in some fiction every once and awhile. One of his quirks for how his writing style was is that he used musical undertones using numerous devices which helped in adapting musical structures to literature. Aiken once made a sequence of poems he called symphonies which tried to achieve the contrapuntal effects of music. The symphonies were based on a series of tones arranged in an arbitrary pattern (DISCovering Authors, par. 2). In one of Aikens most powerful literary pieces he had a boy in the book named paul who tries to escape from his parents by going into his own little world and by the end of the
