Anthem for Doomed Youth

[sxcpaintball]

The tone is absolutely perfect in this reading, thank you very much!

[zackpoll]

music too loud! (and the guns)

[Somme1916Somme]

Thankyou for this.

[DAVE369fattom]

could have done without the sound effects but yet a very moving poem

[flatsdrats123]

what is the song called under the voice???

[22JVlike22]

@flatsdrats123  Adagio for Strings - Barber

[22JVlike22]

@flatsdrats123 It is Adagio for Strings - Barber

[whythewar1]

@flatsdrats123 Adagio for strings

[mickystoned]

nice delivery.

[WanderingWarg]

Good passion and attack, but I feel you could work on some of the phrasing. Check out mine for an example :)

[TirianCreed]

This is beautiful.

[molly1481]

Thank You !

[falstaffswims]

Nicely done: Barber's piece (a.k.a. "Theme from Platoon) had almost turned into a cliche, and has even perverted to suggest the heroics of war... alongside Wilfred Owen, though, it's perfect. Such an awful, monstrously awful world we've inherited: we're still fighting wars. We're still tacitly celebrating them. Thank god for Wilfred Owen: here's the beautifully honest, hideous truth.

[gareebee]

@falstaffswims ...and before "Platoon", it was poignantly featured in "The Elephant Man". An apt pairing if I do say so myself.

[02Blackbeard]

@falstaffswims Exactly.

[rach2299]

Owen is trying to convey the emotions that he felt while on active service during world war one. he is showing the lack of ceremony over the deaths of friends and allies. Owen, himself, died during the last week of the war ad his family got the telegram telling them the bad news when the armistice bells were ringing, symbolising the end of the war.

i really enjoyed this oem. it is very moving

[SEETER1]

nicee

[MaikuxSAN]

Anthem For Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen and Adgio for Strings, from Platoon. Awsome! If only that audio could be downloaded. It would work SO well in a movie.

[LiMaoTang]

this poem depicts the sadness, waste and indignity of war; a vision of the demonic in conflict with the holy. this is my interpretation.... i am not certain whether it is just

[londonimmigrant]

this poem isnt about mourning. this poem is in protest young boys being brought up thinking war is glorious and brave. he is writing that all these boys died without glory and that they truely are doomed youths, he himself was one of them

[silverbiscuit]

That's what Dulce Et Decorum Est is about. I think that this poem strikes an entirely different tone. Of course it's subjective, but I think there is a gentleness and sorrow about Anthem for Doomed Youth, suggested in the title, and that Owen saves his anger for other poems. His work was never as bitter and angry as other WWI poets, anyway.

[silverbiscuit]

It's a poem 'for' the dead boys, the doomed youth, and the personal, quiet mourning that is done for them; not all pomp and ritual but genuine 'in their eyes, shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes', 'bugles calling for them from sad shires', 'each, slow dusk a drawing down of blinds'. It's not about glory or bravery at all, it's about the tragedy of war.

[silverbiscuit]

It's a poem 'for' the dead boys, the doomed youth, and the personal, quiet mourning that is done for them; not all pomp and ritual but genuine 'in their eyes, shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes', 'bugles calling for them from sad shires', 'each, slow dusk a drawing down of blinds'. It's not about glory or bravery at all, it's about the tragedy of war.

[hungarianhotsauce]

whats the name of the song?

[sloanwatson]

Will we ever learn?

[silverbiscuit]

A beautiful and moving poem. I think the reader put too much bitterness into the second part of the poem which detracted from the tenderness. It's a poem of mourning more than a poem of protest, although it's that as well.

[PhenomL37]

A powerful poem and fitting music too great vid

[teal9]

This really moves me. 'Freedom is never free'

[Crai600]

Thank you for putting this up