Wilfred Owen

"Anthem for Doomed Youth" (2066)

    1. Why do we expect bells when someone dies? What sound is heard instead according to the first stanza?
    2. What sound is heard, instead of bells, in the second stanza?
    3. The speaker is looking for candles in the final stanza. What does the last line mean?

"Dulce Et Decorum Est" (2069)

1. Show film if possible. Some background on the poet. If not, read aloud dramatically.

2. What makes this poem unlike most poems you’ve read?

3. What has been in our culture to suggest that dying for one’s country is glorious or wonderful? What does the poem seem to say about such ideas? (Note Latin.)

4. Is it an anti-war poem or anti-propaganda poem or just a statement on war?

 
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