Strange Meeting is a poem on forgiveness. Two soldiers meet in a fictitious Hell, the first having murdered the second in combat. Their emotional discussion is among the most touching in contemporary war poetry. He penned several poems that depicted the tragedy and helplessness of the situation; he attempted to portray the pity in his poetry. The last lines of the poem are: "And now I know why he did not return/ Strange that we should meet after all these years/ So many deaths have crossed your path/ But it is I who must forgive." Owen's father was an Anglican priest who died when he was only nine years old. His mother then married another man, a farmer named Thomas Williams. When Wilfred was 18, he traveled to France to join the British Army. During his time there, he witnessed the horrors of war first-hand and was eventually sent home to recover from his injuries. After leaving the army, he traveled around Europe for a while before settling down in Barmouth, Wales where he lived for the rest of his life. He published very little during his lifetime and is now considered one of the best war poets of all time.