Anthem for Doomed Youth
This traditional funeral sound is replaced by gunfire in the poem.
What is "monstrous anger of the guns"?
What poetic device is used in the description
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”?
What is simile?
He is the creator of this poem.
Who is Randall Jarrell?
This is one-single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern.
What is verse?
This is the war that Dulce et Decorum Est is based on.
What is The Great War?
The “stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle” is an example of which TWO poetic devices?
What are alliteration and onomatopoeia?
This phrase suggests the soldiers are so tired they move without awareness.
What is "Men marched asleep"?
This phrase shows the gunner’s extreme physical vulnerability inside the aircraft.
What is "Hunched in its belly"?
A group of verses where the lines are arranged into a unit.
What is stanza?
This is the term used in WWI to describe the psychological trauma soldiers experienced in the trenches.
What is shell shock?
This line in the poem refers to candles indirectly.
What is "not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes"?
This word suggests the soldiers’ boots are soaked and heavy with blood.
What is blood-shod?
This is where the gunner is physically positioned during the mission.
What is inside the ball turret beneath the plane?
This is the poetic form that Dulce Et Decorum is written in.
What is a double sonnet?
This was the name of the war strategy used in WWI.
What is trench warfare strategy?
These two symbols show how war strips soldiers of dignity and replaces public honor with silent grief.
What are pall and flowers?
This phrase shows that the horror of war continues to haunt the speaker.
What is "In all my dreams, before my helpless sight?"
This phrase describes the physical condition of the gunner while flying at high altitude.
What is "wet fur froze"?
This technique allows the line to flow into the next, mirroring continuous gunfire instead of calm prayer.
What is enjambment?
This was the year Wilfred Owen was enlisted in WW1.
What is 1915?
What is being juxtaposed when Owen contrasts “passing-bells” with “rifles’ rapid rattle”?
What are peaceful religious rituals vs violent sounds of war?
This final phrase turns a famous Latin motto into a powerful accusation against war propaganda.
What is Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?
This phrase shows how little value is placed on the gunner’s life.
What is "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose"?
This is the poetic form in which The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner is written.
What is five-line free verse?
Which of the war flights had the ball turret gunner installed in?
What is B-17 bomber?