The Pity of War Review ofStrange Meeting - Wilfred Owenby
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...not be poetry.
The author of Strange Meeting, Wilfred Owen, knew this. The poem is full of feeling, perhaps as much so as any in the English language, but it is also a work of superb craftsmanship, which took weeks to write. No-one reading Owen’s poetry can doubt the existence of that special vision.
Owen was born in 1893. Curiously, for one who knew so much about literature and was so gifted, he did not do well academically, though he was reading ...
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A sensitive and influential poem, "Anthem For Doomed Youth" captures the underlying true aspects of war. The first hand account written by Wilfred Owen is a powerful indictment of war, in which Owen uses codes and conventions to construct meaning. The poem is written in a form of a sonnet. The octave deals mainly with sound images and good depiction of atmosphere, whereas the sestet is more heart-felt, with visual images to convey the sorrow of death.
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