Anthem For Doomed Youth

Annotations:

• Anthem for doomed youth . Written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shoe the holy glimmers of good-byes. That pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow day a drawing-down of blinds.

1. Ideas
   1. A comparison of death in battle & death at home
   2. Stanza 2 talks about home town
   3. Irony of Anthem= patriotic Doomed = dying, death
   4. Mass splatter of young men
   5. Irony sonata form
2. Forms
   1. Stanza 1 Rhyme,. 1-3, 2-4, 5-7, 6-8
   2. Stanza 2 Rhyme. 1-4, 2-3, 5-6,
   3. Sonata
3. Techniques
   1. Juxtapose
   2. Oxymoron
   3. Simply
   4. Dismisive
   5. Personification
   6. Aliteration
   7. Emjambmen
   8. Reputation
   9. Metaphor
   10. Onomatopoeia
   11. Personification
   12. Alliteration
   13. Symbolism
   14. Dismissive
4. Quotes
   1. What passing bells for those who die as cattle
   2. No mockeries now for them; no prays nor bells;nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
   3. The shrill demented choirs of whaling shells; and bugles calling from sad shires
   4. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
   5. And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.