Wilfred Owen: Poems
"Not on the cess of war"- what does the 'cess of war' mean in Owen's "Strange Meeting"?
Meaning of 'Cess of war"
Meaning of 'Cess of war"
I believe the means the cease or stopping of war.
Wilfred Owen's most famous,and most enigmatic poem "Strange Meeting", here"cess of war"refers to war as a cess of curse, and it also makes us think of cesspool or sewer, which is the nastiest of nasty.In other words,it means to stop the continuing war.