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Strange Meeting (poem)

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49:." The pararhyme here links key words and ideas, without detracting from the meaning and solemnity of the poem, as a full rhyme sometimes does. However, the failure of two similar words to rhyme and the obvious omission of a full rhyme creates a sense of discomfort and incompleteness. It is a discordant note that matches well to the disturbing mood of the poem. 62:. It is sung by the tenor and baritone soloists accompanied by chamber orchestra, joined at the closing line "Let us sleep now..." by the full forces of orchestra, organ, and soprano soloist, mixed chorus and children's chorus, singing Latin texts. 31:. The poem was written sometime in 1918 and was published in 1919 after Owen's death. The poem is narrated by a soldier who goes to the underworld to escape the hell of the battlefield and there he meets the enemy soldier he killed the day before. 40:
or double consonance is a particular feature of the poetry of Wilfred Owen and also occurs throughout "Strange Meeting" – the whole poem is written in pararhyming couplets. For example: "And by his smile I knew that sullen
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The line "I am the enemy you killed, my friend" appears on the memorial sculpture to Owen erected by Wilfred Owen Association, (sculptors husband-and-wife
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This poem has been described as one of Owen's "most haunting and complex war poems".
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Set to Music by Benjam Britten, War Requiem, 1962, by Marcel Haag 2022
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at The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford.
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Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action
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This poem is the final one of Owen's poems set in the
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Wilfred Owen; Harold Bloom; Isaac Rosenberg (2002).
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Wilfred Owen
World War I
Pararhyme
War Requiem
Benjamin Britten
Paul
Ruth de Monchaux
Shrewsbury Abbey
Poets of World War One
ISBN
978-0-7910-5932-6
ISBN
978-1-909644-11-3


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Poems
Wilfred Owen
Poems (1920)
A Terre
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
Arms and the Boy
The Dead-Beat
Disabled
Dulce et Decorum est
Futility
Insensibility

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