Wilfred Owen: Poems
What does word'Strange Friend' suggest in Owen's ''Strange Meeting''?
Here is no cause to mourn.
Here is no cause to mourn.
The soldier's strange friend is the soldier he had killed in combat the day before. In his descent into hell, the soldier meets him as a new kind of comrade..... a neighbor so to speak. Some critics believe the soldier is encountering his other "self." For additional details follow the link provided below.
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