Summary for Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen for BA English
Summary for Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting is a poem written by the British poet, Wilfred Owen . The poem was written in the year 1918 and published in 1919 after Owen's death. This poem was written during the time of World war I. In this Owen decries the horrors of war and its futility. In this poem the speaker is a solider who dies in war and enters the Hell. This poem is considered as one of “Owens Complex War Poem”. In the first stanza of the poem the poet has escaped war and has plunged into a deep tunnel. Being killed in the war he is driven to the underworld. The poet is shocked to see many soldiers groaning and sleeping in hell. Among these soldiers the poet meets a “strange friend”. The strange man raises “with a thousand fears that visions face was grained”. The poet tells the strange friend about their escape from war, bloodshed and gunshot as they are in the hell. But the stranger is not ready to agree with the poet. The stranger narrates hi