Synopsis and Question sheet on Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen GCSE

Synopsis and Question Sheet on Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen GCSE Assessment.

In the face of this horror the soldiers “patter out their hasty orisons”; this is a pitiful image of the young men hurrying a prayer in the face of death. The word “patter” tells how they say these prayers almost robotically as they are in a trance-like state of fear. Within this poem Owen not only shows his disdain for war but he also is rejecting religion. The pitiful image of the “doomed youth” reeling out their hurried prayers encapsulates this. The implication is that the prayers are futile as of course the soldiers are “doomed”. God is not there to help them and this is a sentiment that Owen also conveys in his poem “Exposure” with the line “For love of God seems dying.”