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"Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen.
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"Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen "At the time he wrote this poem, Wilfred Owen had lost hope for the war generation: civilians could not understand, soldiers could not explain. All a war poet could do was warn children, they might find consolation later that a true voice had managed to speak. His poems might prove that there is something indestructible in this human spirit. That would only be consolation if future generations acted on his warning and loved their fellow men." Owen felt he failed as a poet. From your reading of "Strange Meeting", what do you think? In the poem "Strange Meeting", Wilfred Owen believes he has failed as a poet. I think that he would be trying to warn future generations and also tell the truth about the war to civilians. His aim was to make civilians realise what war was really like and for the war to end. Wilfred Owen...
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