Wilfred Owens Greater Love.?

Question: Wilfred Owens Greater Love!.!?

For pleasure purposes I have been reading Wilfred Owens poetry, one of which I really enjoy is "Greater Love"- my one problem is that I don't really understand what is happening within the poem!. Any one help!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The poem compares the love between two people--wooer and wooed, speaker and the one who says he loves the speaker--to the noble soldiers who have died in World War I!. The latter come out better!. The dead soldiers are purer and dearer even than the love of another person, however fine a thing that may be!.

It seems like an odd comparison, but it may seem less so when one considers that Owen was probably homosexual and not comfortable with that fact, so that the rejection of love in the name of soldierly virtue answers a dilemma!. However, it is a moving and beautiful poem, like "Strange Interlude" and many of Owens's others!. I'm delighted someone is reading Owens's poems for pleasure, the only reason to read poems!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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