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¶ … Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Claude Mckay's "If we must Die."
This is a paper that compares and contrasts two poems on death and dying. It has 2 sources.
Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Claude Mckay's "If we must Die" are two poems that share several similarities. They are both sonnets and pertain to struggle. They are both are set in different periods, but are set in the same century (1900s).
The sonnets, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "If we must Die" are set about fifty years apart in the 20th century, and they focus on the First World War and the Civil Rights movement respectively. Each of these poems has described the state of its characters very well because of the imagery in them. The words that are used in them rhyme very well too, which shows that the poets have been very selective. This can be said because of the fact that the rhyming words that have been chosen are ones that make complete sense and fit in well with the theme.
The theme in both poems is about death, and about the way that this death may come to people. Though...
Death is focused on in the poem because of the fact that these young willingly give up their lives for their countries at the time of war leaving behind all those who weep for them. This is the reason why the poet includes the words, "The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall." These words are very real because of the fact that they represent all those whom these soldiers leave behind. Similar to these words are the words in Mckay's poem that state, "Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!" This is a real approach to what the poet has written about. It appears in both poems that the selection of words and verses are ones that are real and give the reader a good idea of what each poet feels for his subjects.
The way that these poems contrast is the approach to death that the poets have taken.
It appears that Owen sympathizes…
Yet another difference between the two poems is the way that the poets have depicted the opposition in each of the struggles. In McKay's poem the oppressors of the freedom rights fighters are described as a "murderous, cowardly pack." This is in contrast to the automatic assumption that neither army could be called cowardly because they are each fighting to defend their countries.
McKay, Claude. If We Must Die 1919 http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mckay.htm
Owen, Wilfred. Anthem for Doomed Youth. 1921. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316ktexts/owenanthem.html
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