Studying the War Poet Wilfred Owen English Literature Essay
Owen modernized himself on his own. Certainly until he met Sassoon, he had no one to help him. Isaac Rosenberg, from a more poverty-stricken background than Owen – in the East End of London – nevertheless managed, through a form of short-lived patronage, to become acquainted with pre-war avant-garde movements in art, Wilfred took on a four-year course to become a student teacher, where you not only gain a good foundation in French, English literature, earth sciences and other subjects, but also gain experience in teaching children from very poor families. Studying Wordsworth and Keats made him long to become a poet and began writing verse. The poem 'Strange Meeting' was written by Wilfred Owen. It is about the horrors committed during the First World War. The poem was written and published after Owen's death. The poem is narrated by a soldier who goes to the underworld to escape the hell of the battlefield and encounters the enemy soldier he encounters.,