Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Greater Love Comments

Rating: 2.7

Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Kindness of wooed and wooer
Seems shame to their love pure.
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Wilfred Owen
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Primrose Tee 05 May 2014

such a great writer..nice poem

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Susan Alldred-lugton 14 March 2005

I think Wilfred Owen is one of the greatest of the Australian poets His life, as was Oscar Wildes was not an easy one, but by vrtue of that fact, he was able to access very deep feelings and write about lifes conflicts even madness. It is sad that he is not more widely read. This poem has an intense and mysterious quality about and lends itself to individual interpretation by the reader. In that way, he doesnt lecture to the reader only conveys feelings that we can resonate with

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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Shropshire / England
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