What Passing Bells
Poetry is in our everyday lives. Music is a form of poetry. This analysis will look at Anthem for Doomed youth. This poem is about youth going to war and how war is a waste of lives. This poem is an important part of Australian history because back during WW1 youth of Australia were looking for adventure and war offered everything they desired. So much so that youth would lie about their age.
The first line of the poem What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? This line itself has a hidden message what passing bells refers to church bells that he would receive at his funeral. Already this phrase has introduced religious imagery to the poem, but it's contrasted with the horrific experience on the front lines of war, where men died like cattle. However the church bells aren’t ringing. Have you also noticed how the poet uses these instead of those? Those gives us the feel of distance but these make us feel closer to the soldiers. Almost as if we were on the battlefield and the soldiers are dying left right and centre. The phrase die as cattle suggest …show more content…
I can link this back to the first line because instead of church bells to mark their death the soldiers get more gunfire to mark their death. In this line when it states the monstrous anger of the guns. It creates a sense of sympathy for the soldiers because they had to face these guns.
The lines only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle and can patter out their hasty orisons. The poet is stating that the stuttering rifles is the only prayer that these soldiers receive. Orisons is a type of prayer. Hasty emphasises the rapidness of the deaths of the soldiers. The word "stuttering" helps bridge the gap between the rifles and the people back home who are saying prayers for these boys. This personifies the rifles because as I mention earlier about the men being cattle at a slaughter house. The man is the rifle and the cattle are the
The first line of the poem What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? This line itself has a hidden message what passing bells refers to church bells that he would receive at his funeral. Already this phrase has introduced religious imagery to the poem, but it's contrasted with the horrific experience on the front lines of war, where men died like cattle. However the church bells aren’t ringing. Have you also noticed how the poet uses these instead of those? Those gives us the feel of distance but these make us feel closer to the soldiers. Almost as if we were on the battlefield and the soldiers are dying left right and centre. The phrase die as cattle suggest …show more content…
I can link this back to the first line because instead of church bells to mark their death the soldiers get more gunfire to mark their death. In this line when it states the monstrous anger of the guns. It creates a sense of sympathy for the soldiers because they had to face these guns.
The lines only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle and can patter out their hasty orisons. The poet is stating that the stuttering rifles is the only prayer that these soldiers receive. Orisons is a type of prayer. Hasty emphasises the rapidness of the deaths of the soldiers. The word "stuttering" helps bridge the gap between the rifles and the people back home who are saying prayers for these boys. This personifies the rifles because as I mention earlier about the men being cattle at a slaughter house. The man is the rifle and the cattle are the