Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” as one of his Greatest Poems of Ugliness
Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting is a protest, not simply against war but against the glamorizing of war. If we think of it as a dream, it is founded on actual incidents of soldiers whom the poet saw die in the tunneled dug-outs. Strange Meeting” was written in 1918, just a few months before Owen’s... Sign in to see full entry.