Question

How effectively does wilfred owen portray the enemy as a friend in the poem strange meeting?

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Wilfred Owen`s `Strange Meeting' is a dream sequence narrated in the first person, in which the narrator, like Odysseus in the Odyssey, travels through the realms of the dead and sees those slain in battle, both his allies and his enemies. Among the sleepers in Hell is a man the narrator killed, but after death 'no guns thump' – i.e. the war is no longer real. Instead, what living and dead soldier share is the...