A Study Guide for Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
1920
Introduction
Anthem for Doomed Youth
is a poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, generally regarded as one of Great Britain's finest World War I poets. The poem was first published in 1920 in the collection Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Siegfried Sassoon, another World War I poet whose work and personal guidance greatly influenced Owen. The poem was written in 1917 while Owen was a patient at the Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh, Scotland. Owen was a soldier during World War I (1914–1918), and in 1917 he was hospitalized for shell shock,
a common psychological affliction during the war; today shell shock is called combat stress reaction and is marked by fatigue, disorientation, confusion, loss of memory, and similar symptoms.
Many writers of Owen's generation went off to war with high ideals, believing that they were playing their part in protecting their nation from Germany. The war, however, dragged on, with little progress. New, more destructive weapons were being used, and both sides were mired down in trench warfare on the western front. The number of casualties was high, and soldiers had to fight not only the enemy but dirt, rats, disease, flooded trenches, mud, and the ongoing psychological trauma caused by incessant shelling. Many artists came away from the experience highly disillusioned by the war's carnage and futility. The poetry they wrote in response to their war experiences captured that sense of futility and disillusionment. Anthem for Doomed Youth,
written in the form of a sonnet, is generally regarded as being among Owen's best poems.
Author Biography
Owen was born on March 18, 1893, near the town of Oswestry in Shropshire, England, the oldest of Thomas and Susan Owen's four children. His early life was comfortable, for he and his family lived in a home owned by Owen's grandfather. In 1897, however, the grandfather died, forcing the family to move to lodgings in the town of Birkenhead on England's western coast. He attended the Birkenhead Institute and the Shrewsbury Technical