Paste your text in here…Wilfred Owen is an English poet and soldier . He was born in 1893 and he raised as an Anglican . He discovered his poetic vocation during a vacation and he started writing at young age . He worked as a teacher in France , then he returned to England to join the army in 1915 . After long time of suffering under the trenches of war , he became ailing . He evacuated to Craiglockhart War Hospital . In that hospital , he met another patient who is Siegfried Sassoon . Sassoon was a poet also and he served as a mentor for Owen . He read most of his poems to Owen and that had the greatest influence on Owen's writing and his view of poetry . After he being treated , he returned to France and awarded the Military Cross for bravery . The collection of his poems appeared in December 1920, with an introduction written by Sassoon .
Owen was one of the most leading poet of the WWI . He was called " The poet of war " and " The poet of trench " . He was extremely influenced by the war and its consequences . His poems and especially his verses were known by the horrors of trench and gas warfare . That was a significant change after his therapy at Craiglockhart . Additionally , his poems were famous by black realism and lingual Ingenuity and most of them were described the severity of the war . His doctor Mr.Brock , was encouraged him to write and translate his experiences , specifically the experiences he relived in his dreams , into poetry.
There were many influences on Owen's poetry such as his mother and the letters which written to her to clarify an insight into Owen's life at the front , and the development of his philosophy regarding the war . Also , his experiences with religion influenced his poetry , notably in poems such as "Anthem for Doomed Youth " . only five poems were published before his death . He was killed in 1918 , exactly one week before the end of the war . A Journey from Obscurity (1963) , is a book which talks about Owen's life .
Generally , the literature in WWI was included poems , novels , and drama . Many of the works during and about the war were written by men . That because of the war's massive appeal of young men in that generation . There were some women ( especially in the British tradition ) who wrote about the war . Often about the effects on soldiers and domestic violence .
Strange Meeting is written in iambic pentameter which affects the rhyme of each line . Owen uses the pararhyme scheme because it asserts the seriousness of what will be said without the distraction of perfect rhymes . The title may have taken from a line in The Revolt of Islam ( Shelley 1818 ) . Owen's poem talks about two soldiers who become friends only after they have died and are no longer fighting for their countries , England and Germany . In that time it was possible for the two soldiers to see how The conflict is futile . The poem declares the reader or the audience into a nightmare like world where both of them meet under ambiguous conditions . Then both of them talk about their lives that they missed and about the atmosphere in the battle front was like the hell . Actually both of them were enemies during the war , but now they find themselves sharing feelings and call each other " friend " . The real kicker comes at the end of the poem , when one of the dead soldiers says , "Oh, btw, I'm the enemy soldier that you killed, and now we're both dead and in hell ."
Through all of that Owen' message is clear now which is the war is a futile exercise . It is not solving problems , but it is producing more .
My subject is war", Owen wrote, "and the pity of war. The " poetry is in the pity ." He depicted the war as a tragic and pitiful trail . According to George Sampson, "Strange Meeting is the most memorable poem of the period of the first world war." That because Owen discussed how he stressed the waste of his life and the destruction caused by the war in clever way . T.S. Eliot praised Owen's poem as ‘one of the most moving pieces of verse inspired by the war,’ recognized that the power of emotions lies in Owen’s ‘technical achievement of great originality ."
John Middleton Murry in 1920 noted the extreme subtlety in Owen’s use of couplets . These couplets utilize the assonance and dissonance . Most readers, he said, supposed that the poem was in blank verse which means a verse without rhyme , but then they enamored and wondered why the sound of the poem as a whole is sad and why these effects still remained .
Leila Rosen considered the lines 40 ‘ 44 where this word is written "My friend" as a contrast to the former bitterly ironic "my friend" of "Dulce et decorum est". The connection between "enemy" and "friend" is a paradox but in unclearly way . This final section clarified the change of the tone of the poem with very high change but in very plain way .