Anthem for Doomed Youth

• What are the methods in the title?

  "Anthem"-a tribute to the soldiers. Nationalism is ironic as the soldiers are dying.

  "Doomed Youth"-shows a lack of hope, ideas of a lost generation. Juxtaposition.
• What are the methods in "What passing bells for those who die as cattle?"?

  "passing bells"-bells are said to toll to announce a soul passing, and toll traditionally at funerals.

  "who die as cattle"-rhetorical question and metaphor which dehumanises the soldiers. Images of slaughter and a futile tone.
• What are the methods in "Only the monstrous anger of guns"?

  "monstrous anger of the guns"-an example of personification. The sounds of heavens bells are drowned out by the noice of war. Negative image. An indifference for men, metaphor for how commanders send their soldiers to death.
• What are the methods in "Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle"?

  "rifles' rapid rattle" is alliterative. Also onomatopoeic as the words mimic the sounds of the guns.
• What are the methods in "can patter out their hasty orisons"?

  The gun sounds drown out the soldiers prayers. Orisons are prayers. Soldiers are praying because of their vulnerability. Ironic their prayers are answered with death, death is better than war.
• What are the methods in "No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells"?

  Religious imagery- mocks religion, most religions are associated with peace and love and the soldiers are answered with death
• What are the methods in "Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs - The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells"?

  The metaphorical choirs, not amount of mourning or shrilling from family and friends of the dead will stop the war. Irony - on the frontlines religion is non existent and is replaced by the fear of war.
• What are the methods in "The shrill demented choirs of wiling shells"?

  The "wailing shells" are personified as demented choirs, meaning insane and out of control.
• What are the methods in "And bugles calling for them from sad shires"?

  Shires are counties in England.

  Bugles were used by the army to relay instructions.

  The shires are personified as sad, this is an example of metonymy where the shires represent the grieving people who live there. It's ironic they are sad as they were caught up in the wave of patriotism and likely pressured the men to join the army.

  People die everywhere in England. Memorials nationwide.
• What are the methods in "What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes."?

  Start of the sestet of the sonnet. Mirrors the start of the poem with a rhetorical question evoking a cyclical nature of war. The Volta.
• What are the methods in "The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;"?

  Pall is a heavy cloth wrapped over a coffin creating a gloomy tone. Pallor and pall and consonants. Pall means a dark cloud of smoke representing the gunfire of the frontline. Foreshadows the death. Women are detached, give men who refused to fight white flowers but they do not know the horrors of war.
• What are the methods in "Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,"?

  It will take a long time for the mens horrors to be accepted by society
• What are the methods in "And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds."?

  Drawing down of blinds is a metaphor for the end of life.