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