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    The poem "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen describes a strange encounter between two soldiers in hell. One soldier awakens another who is suffering, and they realize they knew each other from the battlefield where one killed the other. The dead soldier states he was unable to warn others of the horrors of war. The poem uses personification and oxymorons to convey the horrors of combat.

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    Strange Meeting

    By Wilfred Owen

    Name: Britney Campbell


    Form 6B2
    Structure

    ❖ The poem “Strange Meeting” is written in heroic couplets and there are a total
    of 44 lines contained in four stanzas.
    ❖ Lines 19-21 form a tercet, ending in three half rhymes: hair/hour/here.
    ❖ The last line is much shorter and doesn't rhyme with any other line.
    ❖ The lines are pararhymes.
    ❖ The poem is written in the first person singular point of view.
    Content/ Meaning

    ❖ The title of the poem “Strange Meeting” was taken from “Revolt of Islam”” by
    Pb Shelley- a poem about two people who inhabited Argolis under Ottoman
    rule and initiated a revolution against its despotic rule.
    ❖ The poem was written in 1918 and was published in 1919 after Owen’s death.
    ❖ Just like all of Owen’s poems “Strange Meeting” was written to describe to
    horror and helplessness of war.
    Poetic Techniques
    ❖ Personification:
    ➢ titanic wars had groined (line 3)
    ➢ ...steady running of the hour (line 20)
    ➢ that Sullen hall (line 10)
    ➢ Vain citadels (line 33)
    ❖ Oxymoron:
    ➢ Strange friend (line 14)
    ➢ Dead smile (liine 10)
    ❖ Enjambments
    ➢ To miss the march of the retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled (lines 33-34)
    ❖ Caesura
    ➢ And it grieves, grieves richler than here (line 21)
    ➢ And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall
    ❖ Simile
    ➢ As if to bless (line 9)
    Themes

    ❖ Warfare
    ❖ Fear
    ❖ Suffering
    ❖ Guilt and Blame
    ❖ Compassion and Forgiveness
    References

    ❖ Spacey (2017) Analysis of Poem "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen

    https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-Of-Poem-Strange-Meeting-by-Wilfred-
    Owen#:~:text=Strange%20Meeting%20is%20written%20in,rhyme%20with%20any%
    20other%20line.

    ❖ Crossref-it.info (2021) Strange Meeting - Language, tone and structure

    https://crossref-it.info/textguide/wilfred-owen-selected-poems/36/2648
    Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
    Analysis of Stanzas

    ❖ In stanza one, the speaker, who is a soldier, finds himself down a very dark tunnel
    that seems to have been carved out by some enormous war in the past.
    ❖ In stanza, the speaker found people asleep moaning and suffering. After poking
    and prodding the men, one of them awakens and recognizes the speaker. After
    examining the man’s sad expression, the speaker realized that they were in hell.
    ❖ The other man, who is also a soldier, states that due to his death he was unable
    warn others about the horrors of war.
    ❖ The other man reveals that he was the soldier that the speaker had killed the day
    before.
    Glossary of Terms

    ❖ An enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of


    poetry to the next.
    ❖ A heroic couplet is a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters. It can also be
    defined as a pair of rhyming lines that are present in a heroic poem or that
    relay themes of heroism with a larger poem.
    ❖ A tercet is a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or
    connected by rhyme with an adjacent triplet

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