![]() ![]() The soldiers die as cattle, unsung and not mourned. ![]() The wail of the shells are the songs of choristers and from the shires, bugles mourn the passing of their dead. His life ended at just 25, Wilfreds poetry left us a. Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle Can patter out 3 their hasty orisons. Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was probably the greatest war poet. There are no peelings of bells for dying soldiers their deaths are marked by rat-a-tat of guns that serve as prayers for the dead. WILFRED OWEN (with explanatory notes) ANTHEM 1 FOR DOOMED YOUTH A What passing-bells 2 for these who die as cattle Only the monstrous anger of the guns. But when soldiers die in war, none of these are seen. Deaths are usually associated with coffins decorated with flowers, church services, choir and mourners. Anthem for Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen What passing-bells for these who die as cattle Only the monstrous anger of the guns. ![]() This bitterness has found its way into this poem. In the front, he would have seen friends and buddies being cut down leaving the survivors hardly any time or opportunity to mourn. While in the hospital, being treated for shell shock, Owen would have droves of injured soldiers. Owen tries to find what can be compared to these rituals and comes up with the boom of guns, tears in the eyes of sons and friends and the pallor of wives and daughters while they mourn for the death of the young men. At the front, there are no church services, no peeling of bells, no flowers on coffins. Soldiers are dying in their droves, some cut down in their prime by enemy guns, some of disease but they all die unsung. ![]()
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