{"id":22508,"date":"2013-09-24T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T00:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22508"},"modified":"2013-09-23T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:44:34","slug":"tuesday-poem-anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfrid-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/tuesday-poem-anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfrid-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “Anthem For Doomed Youth ” by Wilfrid Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthem for Doomed Youth<\/h3>\n
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —\u00a0 Only the monstrous anger of the guns.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle<\/div>\n
Can patter out their hasty orisons.<\/div>\n
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,\u2014<\/div>\n
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
\n.<\/span><\/div>\n
What candles may be held to speed them all?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes<\/div>\n
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;<\/div>\n
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,<\/div>\n
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
\n.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Wilfrid Owen, 1893 – 1918<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
—<\/div>\n

About The Poem:<\/h3>\n

I asserted last week that World War 1 marked a significant change in the treatment of war in poetry, and by poets. I also said that probably no one rang in that change more significantly than Wilfrid Owen, with his poetry that juxtaposed compassion with the grim realities of war. I feel Anthem For Doomed Youth<\/em> displays both qualities, from the record of death in which there is no glory, to the blinds drawn down on a generation of young men. To requote Owen again from last week:
\n.<\/span>
\n\u201cMy subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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About The Poet:<\/h3>\n
To read a comprehensive bio of Wilfrid Owen from the Poetry Foundation, please click on his name below.<\/div>\n

Wilfrid Owen<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —\u00a0 Only the monstrous anger of the guns. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,\u2014 The shrill, demented choirs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22508"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22541,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22508\/revisions\/22541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}