
Shall / many candles shine and love will light themĪnd woman's wide-spread ed arms shall be their wreathsĪnd pallor girls' cheeks shall be their palls. Anthem For Doomed Youth is one of best known World War poem’s because of the way in the Octet, Wilfred translates the horror and tragedy of the war and the struggling fight for funeral rites for the young dead soldiers. Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Versions of Anthem for Doomed Youth include: Anthem for Doomed Youth, the first published edition. What candles may we hold for those lost? souls? The long drawn wail of high, far sailing shells Let the majestic insults of their iron mouths Written at Craiglockhart in September-October 1917 under the stewardship of Siegfried Sassoon who helped with revising the poem and. What minute bells for those who die so fast? Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of the best-known of Wilfred Owen’s World War I poems. Shown above is a copy of Owen's first draft of this poem along with it's original amendments by both Owen and his good friend and fellow poet 'Siegfried Sassoon'.
