A comparison of poems by Wifred Owen
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... atural theme. He uses words such as 'hags', 'devil', and 'writhing face'. These words remind me of a bad nightmare, but this must be what Owen wants the reader to see. It might sound like a nightmare but you will be able to wake up from a nightmare whereas he is talking about life in the trenches and there was no way out for these young men, no way just to wake up. In fact, the only way out for many men was their inevitable death.
'Anthem' asks a question at the beginning of each stanza, which it then answers through the rest of that stanza. Why Owen does this is to approach a poem from a different prospective. By asking a question, he gets the reader thinking before answering himself. It causes tension and sadne ...
