Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Analysis

Anthem of the Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen The poesy I chose to understand is Anthem of the blasted juvenility by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen, the son of a railway worker, was born in Plas Wilmot, nigh Oswestry, on 18th March, 1893. Owens youthful illusion of the glory of fighting as a sol violater was reflected in his words to his mother on his return to England shortly before volunteering for the army I now do most intensely want to fight. In the summer of 1917 Owen was badly concussed at the Somme after a tap out landed just two yards away.After several days in a bomb crater with the lacerated corpse of a fellow officer, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from shell shock. While recovering at Craig Lockhart state of war Hospital he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon. Owen showed Sassoon his poetry, who advised and encouraged him. So a bid did another saver at the hospital, Robert Graves. Sassoon suggested that Owen should write in a more direct, colloquial style and thus guided him into writing Anthem for the doomed youth amongst several other rimes he wrote during his stay at the hospital. Anthem for a doomed youth it is a Shakespe bean sonnet with a rhyming scheme of abab cdcd effe gg. Its a very(prenominal) traditional format, which isnt strike as Siegfried Sassoon, a very experienced and traditional poet, collaborated with Owen to write this much thought out piece. Be wooing the poem was a collaboration, the style stands out from many of his other pieces of work, as this is more traditional to what Owen would stir usually written. In most cases, sonnets take their title from the first job in this case the first line sets the mood for the reader by starting off with a question that the poet then proceeds to answer.Though the poem is war based, the title itself suggests innocence with youth which may suggest a connection with the church, as an anthem is a choral composition. However, the word doomed also adds a sinister touch to the sonnet which could also be taken as a premonition of doom, which intrigues the reader to read on to find the cause of the supposed doom. Instantly with the first line Owen refers to the soldiers who die in the battle as these who die as cattle. It makes the men seem like a sort of strength with no square meaning behind it, like soldiers sent to battle and inevitably be slaughtered yet not richly realising why.The next two lines then take the reader to the battle, where the disturbing and frightening atmosphere of gunshots is emphasised as a, monstrous crossness He also gives the atmosphere a more dramatic effect by exploitation alliteration, rifles rapid rattle which emphasises the harsh and unrelenting sounds of the battlefield. So loud and unrelenting that it drowns out their chop-chop prayers made in haste, not allowing them their twinkling of Gods guidance, Patter out their hasty Orisons. In the next line, No mockeries now for them no prayers nor bells, this could be a more personal be lief of Owens, that fighting and killing are wrong in the eyeball of god, as he said in a letter to his mother, videlicet that one of Christs essential commands was Passivity at any price Suffer dishonour and disgrace, but neer resort to arm. Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. In the next a fewer(prenominal) lines of the octave he changes the, what I feel like sort of a homely religious setting into something more disturbing and frightening, as mourning choirs becomes a shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells. And it seems that throughout the poem he likes to keep a sense of innocence about the soldiers, calling them boys which emphasises on how the young the soldiers were, which makes the sonnet more moving and causes the reader to feel savvy ands perhaps some sort of sadness. In the last few lines of the poem Owen mentions what when they die they dont have a decent funeral, merely memories of those they left behind, but in their look shall shine the ho ly glimmers of goodbyes. It reminded me mainly how the soldiers werent the only ones who had suffered throughout the war, all those loved ones that they left behind had cipher to bury or see for the last time, just memories of their husbands, sons, brothers, fathers and uncles. The poem itself flows smoothly as Owen keeps the rhythm deprivation at a slow and steady pace, causing the reader to think about it more carefully, using mainly full stops rather commas. This may suggest that Owen wants the reader to stop for a moment and think about what he just said, to try and picture it in you mind, Only the monstrous anger of the guns. On that line I think that Owen probably wanted us, as the reader to imagine the awful noise that would be surrounding the soldiers. It would have struck fear into the hearts of the soldier and reader as it did to me. And also when he says glimmers of goodbyes. This brings a lot of emotion to the sonnet it made me feel sadness and sympathy for those lef t behind in the war. The soldier who wrote this sonnet experienced many tragedies and horrors serving at the comportment line for what he thought at first, to be a noble cause, which turned out to be a mass slaughter for causes unknown to the common soldier.I felt that Wilfred Owen captures the reality of the war in this very touching and moving sonnet by emphasising the number of deaths of the innocent he outlines the severity of the war. And I like the fact that because of his first hand experience, he wrote what no journalist or any sort of media could have portrayed as romantic or heroic, he wrote what he saw before him, in the eyes of his fellow men and soldiers