PROSE - Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

Strange Meeting

Wilfred Owen

Context

• Sigfried Sassoon callled it 'his passport to immortality'
• Owen said: 'All a poet can do today is work'

Structure

• 1 verse with freedom of speech - like a dream
• Iambic pentameter

Tone

• Warning
• Calm - death = peace

Subject Matter

• Death
• Betrayel
• Comradship

Analysis

• 'I escaped' - left the battle - reality of war
• 'profound dull tunnel' - emphesises how the trenches were like hell
• the use of past tense words such as 'scooped' show that its over
• 'as if to bliss; - tentative - is this a dream?
• 'I knew we stood in Hell.' - opposed to what they were told - LINK TO BROOKE!!! - both are dead - now equals - everyone is paying for the war - its…