Hi friends, today i am going to share you all about the greatest war poet Wilfred Owen. He was one of the greatest war poets. He conveys the futility and devastation caused by war most movingly in his verse. When World War I broke out, Owen got enlisted in the army and was wounded in the war-front. He was awarded the military Cross for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty” in 1918. After getting healed, he was called back to war and killed in action just a week before the war came to an end.
Unlike the other poets, who picture war as a great call to nobility, heroism and adventure, Owen sees the cruelty of it and exposes its dehumanizing ugliness and miseries, with an authenticity of his personal experiences. In the preface to the projected volume of his poems, Owen says, “Above all, I am not concerned with poetry” My subject is war and the pity of war. My poetry is in the pity of it.”
Strange Meeting narrates the vision or a dream, in which the narrator meets a German soldier, whom he had killed the previous day. The dead soldier is sad because he cannot now tell the world the truth about war and the folly of glorifying it. The poem is dramatic and every line throbs with emotion and sincerity. Thanks and regards.
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