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fantastical MeetingStrange Meeting by Wilfred Owen is a poem roughly a spend in fight who makes pass on with the spirit of a dead spend. The poem begins with the relief of a soldier as he escapes the war but then realizes where he was when he sees the dead soldier. The spirit tells him that joining war is simply a dissolution of your life sentence. The poem describes the cruelty and harshness of war, and what its worry to be in it. Owens main aim was to open up the truth about war and the horrific and gruesome reality of being a soldier, contradicting the propaganda illustrating soldiers as heroic, honorable, and proud. Owens poem Strange Meeting shows the horrors of war through prominent and memorable imagery that allow us to feel deep pathos for the young soldiers, whether its physical or the soldiers sexual manpowertal pain. For example, They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress (line 29) is a fiction describing the violent attacks during the war. Meanwhile, W ith a thousand fears that visions face was grained (line 11) gives a clear date of what the dead soldiers face was like, bringing pity to the reader. These images ar used to show the immense harm and the brutality of war and its feeling on men. The dead soldier describes the blood that clogged their chariot-wheels (line 35) showing his wo for participating in the war now that he was aware of its ugliness. Thus, when the soldier states that the foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were (line 42), he truly expresses the cruelty of war and how it leaves men with scarred souls. All of these images highlight the pure pain of war.Owens use of assonance, alliteration and onomatopoeia in the poem help to bring it to life and remind us of the horrific situation at ... ...fred Owen to effectively fabricate sympathy for the second soldier as he describes the pain that men suffered in war. It is only after having described the second soldier that we pick up out his real identity t he enemy the soldier killed back in war, which can be proved with the second soldiers teetotal question, I am the enemy you killed, my friend? (line 43). To conclude, Wilfred Owen wrote the truth. That was his goal. He did not smack to dramatize his poetry. The simplicity of it is what draws readers and what they feel they can relate to. In Strange Meeting, Owen proved to his readers that his intent was the simple truth and in my opinion, this is what he accomplished to share the atrocity of war through the eyes of ii soldiers. This poem very spoke to me, his clever words played like a movie in my and the truth behind the lines of the poem really shocked me.