Tag: Wilfred Owen

Literature

A Short Analysis of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Strange Meeting’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Strange Meeting’ is one of Wilfred Owen’s greatest poems. After ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ it is one of his most popular and widely studied and analysed. Siegfried Sassoon called ‘Strange Meeting’ Owen’s passport to immortality; it’s certainly true that […]

Literature

Five Fascinating Facts about War Poetry

Facts about the war poets and their poetry, as well as other links between poetry and war 1. The link between poppies and war remembrance dates from the Napoleonic wars, when a writer noted that they flourished over soldiers’ graves. As The History Press website notes: ‘there are several anonymous documents written […]