... depicting resentment towards participating in the war. The poem is structured with four stanzas, each five lines, which consist of three free verse lines (ABC) and a rhyming couplet (DD). Gurney's musical sensibility is well defined by the structure of soft sound: using the 'oh', 'o', 'uh' sounds (Das ... mind that's becoming less stable and sane, "You would not know him now" "Cover him, cover him soon!" These words convey that the speaker does not want to describe the remains of the soldier's body due to his horrendous death and signifies his urgency to bury ... what's ...

• Word Count: 2929
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... help the reader look at the poem in a far more intimate, compassionate way. The "thick green light", the "white eyes", and the "haunting flares", are just some of the key words that Owen uses to enable him to create these powerful images and allow the reader to experience a lot more of what Owen was feeling at the time. Conflictingly, Anthem for ... Doomed Youth is much less of a visual poem and this is all to do with Owen's subtle use of loud words, full of noise and bulk such as "monstrous anger" or "stuttering rifles rapid rattle." Although this creates less imagery in the poem, we c...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate