Ode to Poetry

This weeks Modern Poetry class gave me a few different poems to contemplate in the realm of War and in Sexuality. We read Wilfred Owens "Dulce Et Decorum Est" which I have to say I enjoyed more than TS Eliot's "Wasteland". For some reason, it's mood and narration hit me more than Eliots.

We also read Edith Sitwell's "Aubade", Thomas Hardy's "Hap", Siegfried Sassoon's "Repression of War Experience", WB Yeat's "Leda and the Swan" and my favorite DH Lawrence's "Love on the Farm".

With "Love on the Farm" it was interesting to read everyones interpretation. Several saw it as a violent poem that had the woman narrator in conflict with her lover. I have to disagree because I see this poem as nothing more than a woman that is in tune with her sexuality and is enjoying the build up to the "final act".

I'd write more, but I have a webpage to work on and an art history paper that needs some attention.