Types of Love

Greater love, by Wilfred Owen and First Love, by John Clare are about two different kinds of love. First love reflects the shallow love felt by a naive teenager, while Greater Love takes love one step forward, turning it into a profound, powerful and complicated feeling in a warlike situation. While First Love is a typical, conventional love poem, Greater Love deals with unconventional love for men in battlefields.
First Love could be evaluated as a simple, inexperienced situation where the narrator falls in love for the first time. The quote:
“With love so sudden and so sweet,” shows how many unknown emotions suddenly emerged into the narrator’s life, after he met his loved woman, and her face “bloomed” into his mind. It’s subject is very distinct to that of Owen’s poem Greater Love, which is mature, and subverts images of impeccable women to the grotesque images of soldiers dying in WW1. The quote:
“O Love, your eyes lose lure. When I behold eyes blinded in...