Strange Meeting (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilfred Owen
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Social issues, Poetry or poets, War, Death or dying, World War I, Hell, Soldiers, Bereavement or grief, Learning or scholarship, Joy or sorrow, Dopplegangers
The Poem
“Strange Meeting” is a short elegy lamenting a soldier-poet’s participation in World War I, the most cataclysmic event that had occurred up until that period in recorded history. The poem is written in the first person; it can be safely assumed that Wilfred Owen and the narrator are the same person and that this is Owen’s private journey into hell.
Drawing from many trips into the underworld by characters in earlier literature, Owen seems to escape the horrors of the battlefield; he enters a “profound dull tunnel” where the sounds and scenes of the...
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