Consider changes Owen made in 'Anthem For Doomed Youth'. How effective do you find them in presenting the 'Pity of War'?
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Consider changes Owen made in 'Anthem For Doomed Youth'. How effective do you find them in presenting the 'Pity of War'? In this essay I intend to analysis how effective the redrafts of the poem 'Anthem For Doomed Youth' by comparing the first and final drafts. I will go about this task by comparing and contrasting the parts of the poem, which have been change to the ones, which appeared in the final draft. The first change that one is confronted with is the change of the title. Owen begins with the word 'dead', which is changed to 'doomed'. The reason for changing this is because it makes the readers first impressions very deep. The word 'doomed' hits closer to home than the word 'dead' as doomed creates image sin the readers mind that all the youth will die as opposed to 'dead' which simply accounts for the dead....

