Summary for Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth was one of Owen’s most famous poem written in 1917. This poem addresses million dead and people who are about to die. It is written in a sonnet form. This poem is a lamentation for Youngman illustrated as “cattle in the war”. This poem is in the form of questions and answers. What buried ceremonies are appropriate for those who die in the war. The answer is that the sands of battle are the appropriate form of mourning. They function as the worthless lament. The brutality of war seems to deny Christian ritual – the pastor “Hasty Orisons” of church prayers are a greater mockery of the sacrifice the soldier makes than the sound of the guns. Thus, each musical part of a funeral or memorial service is replaced by booming guns, for bells, repeated rifle shots of mechanically uttered prayers, wailing shells for choirs. But there is a lamentation in the fact that they are buried far fr