Sex and Love: An Exploration in Modern Poetry

An analysis of Poems : Wilfred Owen 's Greater Love

Greater Love is a realistic poem written by Wilfred Owen in which he explores the subject of love . In particular , Owen shows an admiration of brotherly love - or rather soldiers love - that he exemplifies with the use of horrendous terms like pure , fierce , exquisite ' in his emphasis of the suffering experienced and sacrifices made by these soldiers to their countrymen . The country men fail to realize this sacrificial love thus touch them not ' since they are inexperienced and lack exposure

Owen glorifies

the soldiers ' love as greater ' in relation to erotic love . In fact , it is like the Agape love that the Christ showed to sinners soldiers lost their lives for the sake of an ignorant society This brotherly love , unlike erotic love , was characterized by sufferings where soldiers stained stones ' and were knife-skewed . These sacrifices and conflict made the soldiers love more real and greater in fact erotic love is shame to their love pure . This is ironical due to the fact that erotic love is more dear ' and gentle unlike the soldiers ' love that is achieved through killing , fighting and violence

To the society , the soldiers ' love is gruesome and ugly . However , Owen does not fall shot of condemning the countrymen 's ignorance on the significance of the soldier 's love to them . Note that erotic love only elicits hopes for return and pleasure

In comparison of these two kinds of love William uses attraction physical connection , sounds , and sincerity aspects to show their differences . Erotic love is shown as temporary , weak and feminine whilst brotherly love is depicted as everlasting and strong

If even readers read the poem and feel the soldiers ' love , they will never understand it

Poetry by Marianne Moore

Poetry is Marianne Moore 's poem in that she explores the shortcomings of poetry . Moore dislike .this fiddle , meaning she believes that great poetry is about enjoying every bit of it both physically and spiritually . This poet has had various incarnations of poetry , including the four-lines short and the thirty-eight lines long poems

Moore believes that when poetry becomes too abstract , the self destruction is inevitable . That is the reader fails to enjoy it due to the agonizing task the reader has to undertake analyzing the poem Moore 's poetry is clear and allows the reader the feel of experiencing the subject matter

The speaker further illustrates lack of genuineness as another point of shortcoming of poetry . She insists that it should merge both reality and imagination . For instance , good poetry should have the capacity to give readers imaginary toads with real toads in them

Moore describes nature scientifically but also considers it to be a place of mystery and beauty however , the use of weird animal behavior in third stanza to show what human cannot comprehend underscores that attitude . In addition to nature , modern poetry is also explored as a theme in this poem

The poem relies on syllabic construction where all lines have same...