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Comment 3 of 13, added on April 19th, 2005 at 10:32 AM.
I want to know when the poem was written.Could you please help me Raniel?... I will be so grateful to you when doing so...
Susan Stevenson from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 13, added on April 7th, 2005 at 10:41 AM.
The Poem
Wilfred Owen"'"s '"'Anthem for Doomed Youth'"' asks what burial rites will be offered for the soldiers who die on the battlefields of World War I (1914-1918) and argues that, in place of a normal funeral, these men '"'who die as cattle'"' will receive, initially, a parody of funeral rites, enacted by the noise of guns, rifles, and '"'wailing shells,'"' and later the more authentic rites of mourning supplied by the enduring grief of family and friends at home. The poem thus begins in a mood of bitterness and irony, but as the focus shifts from the battlefield to the home front, from the immediate setting of mechanized warfare to the distant calm of civilian life, the mood shifts toward emotional sadness and regret
Reneil Millington from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 13, added on April 7th, 2005 at 6:29 AM.
The poem simply speaks of the misery of the young men who were trapped in the nasty web of th first war world. This work of art shows us the bad state of the helpless warriors who had to face terrible events during the war. They were treated as animals and deprived of all the respectable funerary rituals and were buried in a shameful way....
Susan Stevenson from United Kingdom
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I want to know when the poem was written.Could you please help me Raniel?... I will be so grateful to you when doing so...
Susan Stevenson from United Kingdom