1. LITERATURE IN ENGLISH S.S.S.3
POETIC DEVICES AND THEMES IN WILFRED OWEN’S STRANGE MEETING.

2. POETIC DEVICES IN 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

3. THEMES OF OWEN’S STRANGE MEETING
The futility of warfare.
War/Warring/Warfare leads to hell.
The pity of war.
Pain and Anguish in hell.

4. Assignment Discuss ‘Strange Meeting’ as a war poem.
Get a copy of Bernard Shaw’s Arms and The Man and read.