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How does the poet powerfully convey his attitude to war in “Anthem for Doomed Youth”?
Wilfred Owen conveys his anti-war attitude through the central metaphor around which the poem is organized. The poem asks how the young soldiers who died on the battlefields are being memorialized….
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What are the figures of speech used in the poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen?
Some of the figures of speech employed by this poem include simile, personification, and alliteration. In the first line, the speaker asks, “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” He…
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How does Owen use the sonnet form to effectively reflect on the losses of WW1?
Wilfred Owen uses the Italian sonnet form to reflect the losses of World War I by employing the first eight lines (or octave) to address the terrible cost of the loss of young men’s lives in war…
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What do the deceased soldiers get instead of flowers, shrouds, and candles in Wilfred Owen’s poem…
In Wilfred Owen’s World War I poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” the deceased soldiers do not receive prayers, bells, or songs from choirs. Instead, their deaths are marked only by the sounds of guns,…
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What is an example of shocking imagery in “Anthem for Doomed Youth”?
I believe that you are asking about Owen’s use of striking imagery in his powerful, evocative descriptions of the horrors of World War I in “Anthem for Doomed Youth.” “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is…
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Please write about the imagery in “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen . Thanks
In Wilfred Owens’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” the poet employs sound imagery in the first stanza and visual imagery in the second. With its indirect appeal to the senses of sight, sound, smell,…
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What is the significance of the title “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Owen?
The irony in the poem is foreshadowed by the irony in this title. Owen writes a bitter poem about the fate of so many soldiers in World War I and deliberately uses the title to mock the…
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Compare the poems “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “The Send-Off” by Wilfred Owen.
The life of the poet Wilfred Owen is as heart breaking as the war poetry he wrote. After suffering from shell shock in World War I, Owen stayed in a hospital where he wrote many of his poems….
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In “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” what does the simile “who die as cattle” suggest about the deaths…
This simile suggests a lot about both the soldiers and the war that is leading them to be killed in such a spectacularly numerous way. The key to understanding any simile is thinking about the kind…
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In “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” what is the overall impression of war that the poet is trying to…
The impression of war that is created is a profoundly negative one. The bitter, strident tone that dominates the poem is created thanks to the question that interrogates the reader at the…
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What is the attitude of Wilfred Owen in ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ towards war? How is that…
Owen’s aggressively anti-war poem uses the metaphor of a church service to frame the horrific scene of men dying, most likely in France, during World War I. Instead of the sound of church bells…
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What is the tone of the first and second stanzas of Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”?
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? The tone of the first stanza of Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is crystallized in the first line, above. Borrowing from Edmund Spenser’s genius,…
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What is the theme of “Anthem for doomed youth”? How does the poem view war?
It is clear that this is one of many World War I poems that represent a crushing indictment on the whole military enterprise, presenting another image than one that views war as something noble and…
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What does owen mean by .fog of war. ?
I am not sure what you mean by “fog of war” because this phrase does not appear in this poem by Wilfred Owen, but it certainly is a phrase that has been applied to war and may be evident in the…
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