{"id":604,"date":"2010-07-19T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=604"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:30:51","slug":"anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfred-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfred-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-129 lazyload\" title=\"Wilfred_Owen_2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wilfred_Owen_2-256x299.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"299\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wilfred_Owen_2-256x299.png 256w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wilfred_Owen_2.png 481w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 256px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 256\/299;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Anthem for Doomed Youth<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Wilfred Owen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?<br \/>\nOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.<br \/>\nOnly the stuttering rifles&#8217; rapid rattle<br \/>\nCan patter out their hasty orisons.<br \/>\nNo mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,<br \/>\nNor any voice of mourning save the choirs,?<br \/>\nThe shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;<br \/>\nAnd bugles calling for them from sad shires.<\/p>\n<p>What candles may be held to speed them all?<br \/>\nNot in the hands of boys, but in their eyes<br \/>\nShall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.<br \/>\nThe pallor of girls&#8217; brows shall be their pall;<br \/>\nTheir flowers the tenderness of patient minds,<br \/>\nAnd each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen \u00a0What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles&#8217; 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1900s","category-war-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}