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Comparing and contrasting "Anthem for doomed youth" and "Attack". We have been studying two poems, the "Anthem For Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen, and "Attack" by Seigfried Sassoon. These poems are both anti war poems and were written during the time of the First World War. Owen's poem is about the lack of appropriate burials and respect to the dead soldiers. The other poem, Attack, is a narrative about an attack on the British soldiers. In some ways the poems are very similar. As I mentioned before both are anti war. I can tell this from the way they describe people dying. In Owen's poem the men are described as, "Dying like cattle." In Sassoon's poem they are said to have, "Grey muttering faces masked with fear." Death is inevitable. In each poem the poets suggest that the war is one sided, that they are "doomed" and they "flounder." Both of the poems make...

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