Looking at poem 16, Sappho's focus on the beginnings of the Trojan War and, ultimately, the epic of the Iliad is not about Achilles' anger, the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, or Hector's victory over the subsequent retaliation of Patroclus and Achilles, but rather it is about love. Sappho's poem talks about Helen's love, the power of love and how it is more important than that of any army, navy, parents or children. While in Homer's Iliad the theme is masculinity and action, Sappho offers a narrative of a more loving and peaceful nature. In poem 44, Sappho refers to characters from the Iliad, but the outcome of Homer's and Sappho's writings are very different. Sappho's poem talks about the wedding of Hector and Andromache, prominent figures in the Iliad. The poem is incredibly descriptive, just like Homer's Iliad, however the scenes and feelings of Sappho's poem are much softer. Rather than the harsh chaos of war and the taking of young women as prizes for army leaders, the joyous scene of marriage of love and celebration in Sappho's poetry would certainly have evoked a feeling of happiness and perhaps would have brought many young readers to desire a wedding celebration of the same