The first line of this poem was written in response to the anonymous prefatory note accompanying the anthology Poems of Today.
The first line of this poem was written in response to the anonymous prefatory note accompanying the anthology Poems of Today. It notes the "pallor of girls' brows," and talks of the "holy glimmers of goodbyes" and the "tenderness of patient minds" in the second stanza. "Bugles call" for the title characters, with "hasty orisons" drowned out in the fourth line. The second and final stanza ends by noting "each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds." The poem famously decries the "monstrous anger of the guns," and the "shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells," and it begins by asking "what passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" FTP, name this 1917 poem by Wilfred Owen.
The first line of this poem was written in response to the anonymous prefatory note accompanying the anthology Poems of Today.
“{Anthem for Doomed Youth}”