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Title Anthem for doomed youth‘Youth’ links to their innocence and Sonnet
the generation as a whole. ‘Doomed’ Wilfred Owen
alludes to a predetermination of the It consists of an octave (8 lines) and a
awful fate of the ‘youth’. ‘Anthem’ sestet (6 lines).
seems
Warironic since this is not a There is a shift in focus between the
rousing song, in fact, it is the octave and sestet.
opposite. The title is appropriate
because this poem is all the men will It is written in iambic pentameter.
receive, no medals, no parades, and It consists of 14 lines. SACAI JUN 2017
the ‘anthems’ that are usually sung
for them are futile. SACAI JUN 2017
Line 3
Alliteration. The repetition of the ‘t’
Simile
and ‘r’ sounds suggests the sound of
‘die as cattle’- It evokes images of the repeated gunfire on the
slaughter and helps us to understand battlefield. SACAI JUN 2017
the high number of deaths. Cattle are
animals and the simile dehumanises
and devalues the soldiers. It could
also be linked to dying powerlessly,
without the ability to protest. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is a lyric
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poem in the format of a sonnet.
Wilfred Owen wrote it in 1917 while
under treatment for psychological
trauma and trench fever. A
Rhyme scheme: Petrarchan sonnet consists of an
eight-line stanza (octave) and a six-
The rhyme scheme is as follows: first
line stanza (sestet). Generally, the
stanza (octave): ABBA, ABBA; second
first stanza presents a theme, and the
stanza (sestet): CDE, CDE.
second stanza develops it
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