STRANGE MEETING BY WILFRED OWEN 📌 LINE BY LINE EXPLANATION Lines 1–9 (Already shared earlier – I’ll keep them here for continuity) 1. “It seemed that out of battle I escaped” → The poet feels he has escaped from the battlefield. escaped = got away 2. “Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped” → He goes into a deep, dark tunnel made long ago. profound = very deep, serious scooped = hollowed out 3. “Through granites which titanic wars had groined.” → The tunnel was carved through rocks by huge wars. granites = hard stones titanic = massive groined = arched, shaped 4. “Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,” → Dead soldiers lie there, heavy and groaning. encumbered = burdened, weighed down sleepers = dead people 5. “Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.” → They are too deep in death to move. bestirred = awakened 6. “Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared” → When the poet looked, one soldier suddenly rose and stared. probed = examin...