Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen (1917)

A reading of Wilfred Owen's 1917 war poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', penned in an Edinburgh war hospital while Owen recovered from shell-shock. The poem mourns the soldiers of the Great War, evoking images of funeral rituals to lament the War's massive death toll. Owen was killed in battle, aged 25, in 1918 - a week before the Armistice was signed. His mother recieved word of his death on Armistice Day itself. - - What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of ...
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