Anthem for Doomed Youth
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Since there threat of war in some part of the world everyday and because of the impact that it has had on our lives, it doesn't seam surprising that it is a popular theme for a poem. Sonnets are an extremely passionate form of poetry, used to show how the poet feels in their heart, both Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen create this passion is an excellent, but very different ways. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen is a Shakespearean sonnet reflecting on the callous life at war. Owen wrote this poem during his four months at Craiglockhart, a war hospital, whilst recovering from trench fever. Faced with many fatally injured men, this must have inspired him to write a great deal. Unlike Brooke's poem "The Soldier", Owen portrays, not a glorified or heroic war, but a realistic war. Brooke, not a witness to war, had an image of...

