"Anthem For Doomed Youth"

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This paper examines the poem "Anthem For Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen and evaluates the use and effect of literary devices and forms while also showing the interaction of explicit and implicit meanings within the poem. It also refers to the historical and cultural factors that affect the production and reception of the poem. It looks at how the poem is about the first world war where over ten million people died and was written by Wilfred Owen who served as an officer. It shows how Owen, wrote poetry through out his war years, used his experience of battle and its aftermath as his inspiration, having experienced many horrors on the front line.

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"The intention of the different styles of imagery is used in conjunction with other different techniques used throughout the poem. The purpose of which is to firstly shock, horrify and perhaps overwhelm in the first two quatrains and then to create great feelings of sorrow in the sextet. This is achieved, as visual imagery requires more time to summon in the mind then auditory imagery with the descriptions in the sextet being more about humans and feelings they require greater time and focus, they are more personalized and so produce more distress."

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