![]() ![]() ![]() The final four lines uses the repetition of the word “no,” and words like “sad,” “wailing,” “mourning,” and “prayers” to evoke the fear and madness of battle and death in the trenches. In the first four lines of stanza one he uses words like “monstrous,” “angry,” “rapid,” “rifles,” all of which evoke a dreadful sense of war and horrific sounds. Owens’ use of diction is a huge factor in his expression of the theme of youth going to war and dying as well as giving up hope in the war. The final line “And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds” (line14) projects an image of the end of another life and the end of another day in the still ongoing war. Although the sestet also reflects on the “Doomed Youth”, it is less focused on the youth’s deaths and displays more of the losing of their lives and the mourning of their loved ones back at home. ![]() Owen uses a Petrarchan sonnet, which divides the poem into an octave and sestet. Throughout the first stanza, Owen continues to speak of the death of youth by bullets and how nothing can stop their end from coming they are inherently doomed. He begins his poem with an image comparing the death of youth at war to that of the slaughtering of cattle, which is a gruesome way to picture the ending of human life. Owen’s poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is a sonnet for the thousands of youth who went off to fight in WWI and were killed in battle. Anthem for Doomed Consonance, Dissonance, and Diction ![]()
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