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Summary Anthem for a Doomed Youth analysis
- Course
- English Home Language
- Institution
- 10th Grade
Full, line-by-line analysis of the poem Anthem for a Doomed Youth
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Unfortunateoutcome ominous Juxtaposition
uplifting 1 happy + one
,
threatening -
misleading
I
-
expect happy
Anthem for a Doomed Youth rather horrors of
'
,
wa r t death
church bells death ,
-
'
criticism
funeral
They only hear
gunfire What passing bells for those who die as
i.
This is
sufficient not
slaughter
cattle? Death of
soldiers = of cattle
Onomatopoeia series of -
-
short sharp sounds Rhetorical Q → makes audience think is this
appropriate personification , an
death 1 burial
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
rushed , fast
transferred epithet
of soldiers
Anger '
t' →
violent sound
enjambment ongoing
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle of bullets Passed onto
guns
- i
'
r >
rapidity frequency
-
+
flow of bullets of shots
prayers
'
ceremonies
'
mockery
Can patter out their hasty orisons. IN0R No
High pitched scream
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor emphasise what
except ( what
bells; they get)of
unpleasant do
immitates sound of shells group singers they don't have in
harmony
Conn . of paint suffering + sadness Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs —
crates
dramatic pause
emphasises horror
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
to
Small trumpet
Follow contrastof -
mark times in
army what should us do
-
-
call retreat get small town
-
sounded at funerals And bugles calling for them from sad shires. where they )
moving
away from
come
battle
from (
field
people waiting for them at
What candles may be held to speed them send forth w/
r
home good wishes ,
candles I bring civilian life ,
to an end
light all?
people dealing >
people chaos + wa r -
shift in poem
-
with loss of loved ones '
sh '
calming someone
-7
atfunerals sign of -
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
' ' '
harsh and
reality g
-
hope for afterlife
sadness of death of
Instead of candles being soldiers
held to send to afterlife soldiers
only see
,
last flicker of light 1 life Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. placed
coffin cloth over a
leave
eyes light of bullets
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; pallor pall funeral
t = no
,
bombs reflected ,
only pale grief faces of
pale complexion Their flowers the tenderness of patient only thoughts
no flowers ,
of women
loved
back home
ones
'
of them
minds, partial
tribute to dead , mark of respect
gentleness , kindness
darkness, sunsets into evening
And each slow dusk a drawing down of
blinds. people of
draw down blinds in respect mourning room dead person to show
+
Dusk down of blinds
drawing
-_
Don't have draw down blinds for them only get the end of the
family ,
of )
day (shows horrors war
Structure
:
Elements of sonnet
focuses
= ironic → not romance ,
only
Traditional funeral 1 religious reference
.
Punctuation
on
negative
Shakespearean
F0S
.
H hybrid sonnets
Petrarch o n
Sound devices
-
Unorthodox use of structure
-_
unorthodox
Horrors of war
attitude towards war
Repetition
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