{"id":6916,"date":"2026-08-15T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/army-of-two\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:00:06","slug":"army-of-two","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/army-of-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Army of Two by Danil Rudoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dr-poem-page\">\n<section id=\"army-of-two\">\n<p><strong>\u201cArmy of Two\u201d by Danil Rudoy<\/strong> is an eight-line rhymed poem from <em>Love Is Poetry<\/em>, dated April and November 19th 2019. A question about love develops through perception, social performance and the image of two people remaining an \u201carmy of two.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"poem\">\n<h2>Army of Two<\/h2>\n<div class=\"dr-poem-text\">\n<p>What is love? It depends<br \/>On the power to see<br \/>All the posing you slew<br \/>In the corporate hallways.<br \/>That we\u2019ll never be friends<br \/>I can well guarantee,<br \/>But an army of two<br \/>We will keep being always.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>April, November 19th 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"publication\">\n<h2>Publication<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cArmy of Two\u201d appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/love-is-poetry\/\"><em>Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life<\/em><\/a>, within <em>The Endless Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"partnership-and-perception\">\n<h2>Partnership and perception<\/h2>\n<p>The poem begins by making love depend on the \u201cpower to see.\u201d Its corporate hallways contain posing that has been recognized and defeated, so perception becomes a condition of intimacy. The closing image gives the relationship a compact martial metaphor: two people form a durable unit whose strength comes from alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201carmy of two\u201d joins intimacy with discipline, loyalty and shared position. The poem\u2019s short scale concentrates the idea into a single movement from a definition of love toward an image of partnership.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"critical-reading\">\n<h2>Critical reading<\/h2>\n<p>A detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prose-n-poetry.com\/army-of-two-danil-rudoy-poem-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critical reading of \u201cArmy of Two\u201d<\/a> on Prose &amp; Poetry examines partnership, perception, social performance, corporate imagery, rhyme and the closing military metaphor.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"related-reading\">\n<h2>Related reading<\/h2>\n<p>Continue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/recurrent-pattern\/\"><em>Recurrent Pattern<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/the-mastery-of-rhyme\/\"><em>The Mastery of Rhyme<\/em><\/a>, and the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/\">English poems by Danil Rudoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"rights\">\n<h2>Text and citation<\/h2>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author\u2019s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArmy of Two\u201d by Danil Rudoy is an eight-line poem from Love Is Poetry about love, partnership, perception, social performance, and enduring alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["dr-evergreen-document","dr-schema-webpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}