Anthem For Doomed Youth Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
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Anthem For Doomed Youth
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Willfred Owen
Written while recovering from then effects of shell shock in Craiglockhart Hospital
Influenced by fellow patient Siegfried Sassoon
2
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Form
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Sonnet- Lamenting the loss of life on the Western From WW1
Follows the conventions of a Petrarchan sonnet with Owen choosing to divide the stanza into octave and sestet
But follows rhyme scheme of Shakespearian sonnet
3
Q
Half rhyme in the in the first stanza:
“Guns / orisons”
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Radical and jarring feature, it heightens the mocking quality of the implied relationship between gunshot and prayer
4
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“The stuttering rifles”
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The hard dental consonants of the onomatopoeic ‘stuttering’ mimics the sound of machine guns
