The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells Īnd bugles calling for them from sad shires. Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? This poem also draws quite heavily on Wilfred Owen’s love of poetry. It was Siegfried Sassoon who gave the poem the title ‘Anthem’. The first part of the poem takes place during a pitched battle, whereas the second part of the poem is far more abstract and happens outside the war, calling back to the idea of the people waiting at home to hear about their loved ones. Written in sonnet form, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ serves as a dual rejection: both of the brutality of war, and of religion.
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