Anthem for Doomed Youth

• Owen uses imagery to explore the harsh truth of the fates of young men in war.

  True
• Owen served and died in the First
• The rhetorical question "what passing bells for these who die as cattle?" emphasizes the dehumanization of soldiers.
• Match the literary technique with its effect in the poem:

  Alliteration ↔️ Highlights the constant sounds of war

  Rhetorical question ↔️ Challenges traditional mourning rituals

  Personification ↔️ Emphasizes the impact of war on towns
• Owen suggests that traditional rituals mock the suffering of soldiers.

  True
• The line "no mockeries now for them; nor prayers nor bells" suggests a rejection of traditional mourning practices.
• The phrase "drawing-down of blinds" symbolizes the end of a soldier's life and brings peace.
• Match the symbolic item with its meaning in the poem:

  Passing bells ↔️ Rituals of remembrance

  Candles ↔️ Prayers for soldiers

  Flowers ↔️ Funerals and grief
• Owen concludes that more suitable rituals could bring peace to the soldiers.
• Arrange the main ideas Owen explores in "Anthem for Doomed Youth" in a logical order:

  1️⃣ Brutality of war on the western front

  2️⃣ Inadequacy of traditional mourning rituals

  3️⃣ Call for more fitting tributes to soldiers

  4️⃣ Suggestion that peace is the ultimate form of remembrance
• The poem compares the sounds of war to the choirs and bells of funerals
• Wilfred Owen seems to show the futility of religion in the context of war.

  True
• Match the stanza description with its content:

  First stanza ↔️ Compares war sounds to funeral rituals

  Second stanza ↔️ Describes the absence of ceremonial funeral aspects
• In the first stanza, the speaker questions what “passing bells” exist for soldiers
• In the second stanza, the rituals of death are replaced by grieving girls and darkness.

  True
• Order the comparisons made in the first stanza:

  1️⃣ Passing bells to gunshots

  2️⃣ Choirs to shells

  3️⃣ Prayers to explosions
• What ceremonial aspects of funerals are absent in the second stanza?

  Candles and flowers
• Owen compares the soldiers to “cattle” dying in their herds
• Owen shows that the glory of war portrayed by propaganda writers is an illusion.

  True
• Match the theme with its description in the poem:

  War ↔️ The reality and horrors of conflict

  Religion ↔️ Faith's inadequacy in the trenches

  Death ↔️ The bleak and harsh reality of death in war
• Owen refers to funeral practices such as including candles and flowers in the church
• Order the ceremonial aspects mentioned in the poem as they relate to funerals:

  1️⃣ Bells

  2️⃣ Choirs

  3️⃣ Candles

  4️⃣ Flowers
• Owen's poem is a lament for the deaths of young soldiers in war.

  True
• The sound of bugles in the poem symbolises the lament for soldiers back home
• Owen's use of imagery and sound effects emphasises the chaos of life in the trenches.

  True
• What does the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" describe?

  Memorial tributes to dead soldiers
• The sonnet form used in "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is an Italian Petrarchan
• The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

  True
• The poem is structured into an octet and a sestet
• What is the sonnet form traditionally used for?

  Praise or elevation
• The volta in the sonnet signals a move from the sounds of war to funeral practices associated with Christianity
• What does the octet in "Anthem for Doomed Youth" introduce the reader to?

  The brutal environment of the trenches
• The octet culminates in a reference to "bugles calling for them from sad shires"

  True
• Match the poetic device with its definition:

  Rhetorical question ↔️ A question asked without expecting an answer

  Volta ↔️ The turn in a sonnet

  Couplet ↔️ A pair of rhyming lines
• What contrast does Owen draw between religious practices and the realities of death in the trenches?

  Lonely death vs formal funerals
• The final couplet slows the pace of the poem and concludes with an image of "slow dusk
• What does the "drawing down of blinds" symbolize in the final couplet?

  The deaths of men in the trenches
• The word "anthem" in the poem can refer to a rousing song or music set to a religious reading
• Who suggested the title "Anthem for Doomed Youth" to Wilfred Owen?

  Siegfried Sassoon
• The poem uses the double meaning of "anthem" ironically to question the glorification of war and religious practices.

  True