Please explain the poem, especially the second stanza, line by line and word by word. Simplify it as much as you can using simple words. 1- Down...

Wilfred Owen was one of the most important poets to write
about World War I.  "Strange Meeting," like many of his poems, expresses a very negative
attitude about the horrors and futility of war.

The
narrator describes his descent into a "profound dull tunnel."  He seems to be describing
the journey of his soul into Hell after death.

He finds
there many encumbered (burdened) sleepers, meaning dead people.  These people are "too
fast" in thought or death to be stirred from their "sleep."  "Fast" in this sentence
means tightly or strongly, as in the expression "fast asleep," or as in the word
"fasten."

One man, however, jumps and stares at the
narrator as if he recognizes him.  This man lifts distressed hands as if he wants to
bless the narrator.

At the end of the poem, the narrator
comes to realize a terrible truth: this man who befriends him in Hell is the same man
that he previously killed on the battlefield.