 | Edward Shanks - 1927 - 232 Seiten
..." Blow out, you bugles over the rich dead," and Wilfred Owen's :— " What passing-bells for these who die as cattle ? Only the monstrous anger of the...rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons." The first is jhe_abstracLpoetry of anticipatioi^jhe second is~poetrv of concretg^experience. To this... | |
 | Harold Stauffer Bender - 1928 - 304 Seiten
...it has been called, has elements of the characteristics mentioned. It begins — "What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger...rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons." "Who die as cattle" is an expressive phrase in which he indicates that he does not have the romantic... | |
 | University of Adelaide. Public Examinations Board - 1928 - 1280 Seiten
...expression and imagery of the following poem: ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle ? Only the monstrous anger of the...rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for them ; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, — The shrill,... | |
 | 1995 - 164 Seiten
...old Lie: Duke et decorum est Pro patria mori. Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the...rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for them from prayers or bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...that to die for one's country is sweet and proper. ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH What passmg-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the...rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells. Nor any voice of mouming save the choirs, — 'I"he... | |
 | Mervyn Cooke - 1996 - 132 Seiten
...up to Thee in Jerusalem; hear my prayer, all flesh shall come to Thee. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the...rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for them from prayers or bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill,... | |
 | Timothy Rogers - 1997 - 538 Seiten
...between his 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead', and Wilfred Owen's: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the...rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. The first is the abstract poetry of anticipation, the second is poetry of concrete experience. To this... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 Seiten
...on the immediate sound effects of his poems. The result is lines which reproduce the sounds of war: What passing-bells for those who die as Cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns . . . Can patter out their hasty orisons. (-Anthem for Doomed Youth) After Wilfred Owen died, among... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...1893-1918 8445 All a poet can do today is warn. 8446 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' What passing-bells for these % No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs The shrill,... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 Seiten
...know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out. (xx) What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the...rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. 5 No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill,... | |
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Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad... 
