![]() If I thought the letter of this book would last, I might have used proper names but if the spirit of it survives Prussia,-my ambition and those names will be content for they will have achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders. No mockeries 5 now for them no prayers nor bells Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. What passing-bells 2 for these who die as cattle Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Yet these elegies are not to this generation, this is in no sense consolatory. ![]() The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. ![]() Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion or power, except War. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. From his preface: "This book is not about heroes. Only five poems were published before his death in November, 1918. One of the best regarded war poets for his shocking realism about the horrors of war, Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of Owen's most famous poems from his collection published posthumously in 1919. ![]()
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