Anthem For Doomed Youth

Question 1

Draw up a list of contrasting elements (5)

Answer 1

Rituals funeral    Dying on batle field
Passing bells  vmonstrous anger of guns
Hasty orisons   Rifles rapid fire
Chiors    Choirs of wailing shells
Candles   Holy glimmers of good byes

Question 2

The poets attitude towards all the ceremony connected with a funeral is shown in one key word, can you find it

Answer 2

Mockeries (5)

Question 3

Explain what the poet tries to say with the word mockeries

Answer 3

He feels that the funerals are nothing but an insult to the soldiers who have died fighting on the battle field. Owen seems to suggets that the christian religion. Memorials in churches, and their loving god can have nothing to do with the deaths of so many people

Question 4

Is there an alliteration in the text

Answer 4

Riffles rapid rattle

Glimmers of goodbyes

Question 5

Try to describe how the two stanzas differ from each other

Answer 5

Stanza one is about fighting in the battle field

Stanza two is about home

Question 6

This poem is based on a prolonged comparison. Can you srite down which two things are compared in this poem

Answer 6

The rituals of funerals are compared to dying on the battle field