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www.englishteaching.co.uk Copyright 2005 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ Wilfred Owen Re-drafting the poem Re-drafting the poem The Final Draft – or is it? Anthem for Doomed Youth Anthem for Doomed Youth Anthem for Doomed Youth Anthem for Doomed Youth How does Owen use death imagery in his poem? Rhetorical Questions * What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattleCan 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 eyesShall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.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. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattleCan 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. Point Example Explain the effect Answers the question Usually a quotation Why has the author chosen to use those words? What is the effect on the audience? What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Why did Wilfred Owen choose this simile to describe the men? Wilfred Owen uses a simile to describe the soldiers dying in battle. He writes that the soldiers “die as cattle”. This simile is effective because it shows that Owen feels that the men were dying without dignity and that the amount of men dying was like the number of cattle being slaughtered. Onomatopoeia Personification Alliteration is a word which imitates the sound it represents. e