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Vanessa Arellano arellav@students.markham.edu.pe Wednesday, 07th March 2004 'Strange Meeting' Wilfred Owen 1. What is unusual about the poem's subject matter? How does it differ from the other war poems you have already read? In Strange meeting, there is an uncertainty of what is really going on. For some, it seems that the poetic voice is in a coma-like dream, where fantasy mixes with past memories of war reality. For other, it seems that this soldier is dead and that he meets in hell with one of the soldiers he has killed during war. The unusual subject matter arises from the dreamlike or death sensation, which is achieved from the beginning when the poetic voice explains that it "seemed" that out of battle he "escaped". Here, "seemed," adds mystery to the poem, which contributes in making it different from other war poems we have read, which unlike this one, are very straightforward. 2. Where...

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