Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards
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Year Owen wrote 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
Year Owen wrote 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
1917 at Craiglockhart War Hospital
Poet who influenced Owen at Craiglockhart
Poet who influenced Owen at Craiglockhart
Siegfried Sassoon
Owen's subject statement
Owen's subject statement
'My subject is War, and the pity of War'
Simile showing soldiers' dehumanisation
Simile showing soldiers' dehumanisation
'die as cattle'
Form/structure of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
Form/structure of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
Petrarchan sonnet
Where the volta occurs in the poem
Where the volta occurs in the poem
Line 9 (start of sestet)
Sound device: guns/orisons, bells/shells
Sound device: guns/orisons, bells/shells
Half-rhymes (slant rhymes) - creates discord
Literary device in title 'Doomed Youth'
Literary device in title 'Doomed Youth'
Oxymoron - youth should mean future, not doom
Phrase replacing church choirs
Phrase replacing church choirs
'shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells'
Final image: 'drawing-down of blinds' meaning
Final image: 'drawing-down of blinds' meaning
Victorian practice of closing curtains when someone died