poetic devices and themes in wilfred owen’s strange meeting
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LITERATURE IN ENGLISH S.S.S.3
POETIC DEVICES AND THEMES IN WILFRED OWEN’S STRANGE MEETING.
Personification : Line 3, 20, 32 Repetition : Words like ‘blood’, ‘pity of war’,
‘grieves’, ‘wounds’ etc Oxymoron : ‘strange friend’, ‘dead smile’,
etc Enjabment or run-on-lines : Lines 21, 3- 4,
4-5 etc. nearly all the lines are full of enjabments.
Caesura : A pause in a line of poetry. Lines 15, 21, 14, 9
POETIC DEVICES IN OWEN’S STRANGE MEETING
The futility of warfare. War/Warring/Warfare leads to hell. The pity of war. Pain and Anguish in hell.
THEMES OF OWEN’S STRANGE MEETING
Discuss ‘Strange Meeting’ as a war poem.
Get a copy of Bernard Shaw’s Arms and The Man and read.
Assignment
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