Anthem for Doomed Youth BY: WILFRED OWEN POWER POINT BY: JACOB SCOTT

Wilfred Owen  Owen was a English poet and a soldier.  He was one of the best poets of the first World War.  He wrote about trenches and gas warfare  Owen started righting a the age of 17

Structure of poem the poem has 2 stanzas and 14 lines in the poem the poem has a rhyme scheme, but it has sum but it changes in stanza 2 the poet also put in some internal rhyme What passing-bells for these 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 shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds

Literary Elements  End rhyme- at the end of a line there is rhyme what passing bell for these who die as cattle, only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle  Slimily- comparing 2 thing with using like or as what passing bells for these who die as cattle?  Alliteration- creating the same end sound on a word goodbye, eyes choirs, shires  Internal rhyme- there is rhyme in side of the line of the poem the pallor of girls brows shall be their pall

The Speaker  The speaker in the poem is a man that is in the war  The man has lost someone close to him in battle and is in grief of there lose

Imagery What candles may be held to speed them all Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes The people that are fighting are young and some are dyeing right in front of him No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, There are no bells for the ones how die on the battle field

Imagery Only the monstrous anger of the guns. only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle In war all the time he herd rifles firing and rattling The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells They were under lots of fire

Theme War will always have sacrifice and sadness

Literal Meaning  The literal meaning of this story is a young man is in war and sees his friend get shot in combat and is killed.

Figurative Meaning  He is feeling bad for the solders that did in war and is morning them

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