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Strange Meeting. By Wilfred Owen. It seemed that out of battle I escaped. Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped. Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared.
“Strange Meeting” was written by the British poet Wilfred Owen. A soldier in the First World War, Owen wrote “Strange Meeting” sometime during 1918 while serving on the Western Front (though the poem was not published until 1919, after Owen had been killed in battle).
With its innovative narrative, 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen is a timeless exploration of war victims, particularly soldiers' despair, challenging conventional views while confronting the readers with moral and ethical questions concerning war.
May 19, 2024 · Wilfred Owen wrote “Strange Meeting” during World War I, a conflict that profoundly impacted the world and shaped Owen’s experiences and poetry. Born in 1893, Owen joined the British Army in 1915, and served as a soldier on the Western Front in France.
Nov 9, 2017 · ‘Strange Meeting’ is one of Wilfred Owen’s greatest poems. After ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ it is one of his most popular and widely studied and analysed.
Strange Meeting. Wilfred Owen. 1893 –. 1918. It seemed that out of the battle I escaped. Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped. Through granites which Titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Published two years after his death in battle, Wilfred Owen wrote “Strange Meeting” based upon his own war traumas. In this poem, Owen encounters in hell a soldier he killed.
