In the elegy "strange Meeting ", Owen brings the horrors of wars and their devastating effect on those involved, he emphasizes their part in hindering the world from progress

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Analysis of the poem A strange Meeting  

           In the elegy "strange Meeting ", Owen brings the horrors of wars  and  their devastating effect on

those involved, he emphasizes their part in hindering the world from progress . War and death are

 presented in this poem through the story of two dead soldiers ,who fought on opposite sides , and who

 meet again in Hell . They speak of their shared hopefulness  of the "undone years " .

        Owen's manipulation of words and his use of  artistic devices in the poem takes the reader to a

vivid awareness of the real dreadfulness of  battles and death. The speaker in the poem ,who is a soldier,

 starts the poem by saying that he seemed to " escape" the battle to somewhere else , a place he

 discovers later to be Hell . The mere use of the word " escape " implies that the speaker was trapped in

 war  before  he  escapes  to Hell which is , when compared to battle, a relief. Owen says that  common

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 words  associated with wars like chivalry , courage  and  gallantry do not describe wars, not really,

  instead war is pain , sorrow and loss . He emphasizes on the destructiveness of wars to those involved .

 He says " yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned " , so they are " encumbered " physically with

their uniforms and sacks and emotionally with too much sadness and sorrow brought to them by war .

Those sleepers are " too fast in thought or death " to be stirred . One of those sleepers " sprang up " from

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