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Click on the “Anthem for Doomed Youth” to read the poem by Wilfred Owen.   Then answer the questions.

Poem:  http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen2.html

Questions:  Please make sure to answer using complete sentences.

1. Write your initial thoughts about the poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth.”

2. Write about what ideas you find in the poem.  For example, soldiers pass into death to the sounds of gunfire instead of the sounds of a traditional funeral.

3. Which ideas in this poem can still be applied to soldiers and war today?

Click on the title “Dreamers” below to read the poem by Siegfried Sassoon.  Then respond and answer the questions. 

Link:  Dreamers

Questions:  Be sure to answer all questions using complete sentences!

1. What are your initial thoughts about the poem? 

2. Discuss and write about the major ideas in “Dreamers”.  For example, the poet talks about the glory of the mundane compared to the hour of destiny upon the soldiers.