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Notes for students
1 Anthem - perhaps best known in the expression The National Anthem; besides, an important religious call (often expressing joy); here, perhaps, a solemn song of celebration
2 passing-bells - a bell tolled after someones death to announce the death to the founding
3 patter out - rapidly speak
4 orisons - prayers, here funeral prayers
5 mockeries - ceremonies which are insults. Here Owen seems to be suggesting that the Christian religion, with its loving God, can have nothing to do with the deaths of so many thousands of men
6 demented - raving mad
7 bugles - a bugle is played at armed forces funerals (sounding the last post)
8 shires - English counties and countryside from which so many of the soldiers came
9 candles - church candles, or the candles lit in the room where a body lies in a coffin
10 fairness - paleness
11 dusk has a symbolic logical implication here
12 drawing-down of blinds - normally a preparation for night, barely also, here, the tradition of drawing the blinds in a room where a dead person lies, as a sign to the demesne and as a mark of respect.



The coming of night is give care the drawing down of blinds.

Anthem for Doomed Youth is a well-known popular poem written by Wilfred Owen which incorporates the themes of the abhorrence of war. It employs the traditional form of a petrarchan sonnet, but it uses the rhyme intention of an English sonnet. Much of the second half of the poem is consecrated to funeral rituals suffered by those families deeply affected by World contend I. The poem does this by following the sorrow of common soldiers in one of the bloodiest battles of the 20th century. Written between September and October 1917, when Owen was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh get from shell shock, the poem is a lament for young soldiers whose lives were unnecessarily lost in the First World War. The poem is also a comment on Owens...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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