DSC 101: Strange Meeting
Wilfred Owen wrote poetry out of the experiences of the warfare in France and the First World War. His poetry can be found in his 27 poems in Mind at War and 19 poems in Out in the Dark. The present poem 'Strange Meeting' is highly dramatic, ironical and touching poem. The scene is hell. Two dead soldiers meet there by chance. It is a strange meeting at a stranger meeting place. However, this strange meeting refers to the stranger's fate for those who are the innocent victims of the war. STRANGE MEETING was written in the spring or early summer of 1918 and stands in the forefront of Owen's achievements. Siegfried Sassoon called it Owen's passport to immortality. On the poet's memorial in the grounds of Shrewsbury Abbey is engraved the famous quotation: I am the enemy you killed, my friend which words continue to re-echo down the years. The poem is referred to the poem “Strange Meeting” by Wilfred Owen, a renowned English Poet who wrote during World War. “Strange...