Strange Meeting Themes

It's not likely you're making it through a Wilfred Owen poem without some mention of war, and "Strange Meeting" is no exception. This poem is crowded with soldiers and the suffering they continue t...

Is there anything scarier than war on the front lines? The soldiers in "Strange Meeting" have experienced the horrors of battle up close and personal. They've felt the horror of killing another man...

While compassion and forgiveness might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you're reading a poem about war, Owen pulls it off like a pro. These dead soldiers, though enemies on the bat...

We're not really experts on the subject, but it's hard to imagine you could have an easy time killing someone (regardless of whether or not it's justified through war) and not feeling any guilt wha...

You're not hanging out in hell without a little (or a lot) of suffering. That's the sole purpose of hell: to make everyone who has been sent there miserable for a very long time. And you thought ha...