A hodge-podge of poetry?

This week's (ha!) poems at first glance seem to be a hodge-podge of seemingly unrelated themes.  There were six poems: "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, "Aubade" by Edith Sitwell, "Hap" by Thomas Hardy, "Repression of War Experience" by Siegrfried Sassoon, "Leda and the Swan" by W.B. Yeats, and "Love on the Farm" by D.H. Lawrence.  I think that it was while I was reading Lawrence's poem that I began to see a connection woven among the poems: power and its lack.  We've got two anti-war poems, three poems dealing with women and "love," and a poem in which a man reflects on the nature of god versus the nature of chance.  Owen's soldiers are manipulated by those in power with promises of glory.  Sassoon's are encouraged by society as a whole to keep their problems to themselves, thus relinquishing their power to heal.  Leda is raped (a show of power), Jane loses the power to enjoy life once her man is gone, and the woman on the farm seems to willingly yield herself to the power of her husband.  Hardy's speaker seems to long for Someone in power, Someone at whose feet he can lay responsibility for the misery of his life.

We need to use our own power, whether society, the gods, or those who consider themselves dominant over us approve or not.