Eng426 20th century english literature

Self-Assessment Exercise

Justify the classification “Anthem for Doomed Youth” as an example of war poetry.

4.0 CONCLUSION

Wilfred Owen was a modernist poet who poem shows the extent to which twentieth century poets espoused the nothingness of life and human experience in general.

5.0 SUMMARY

In this Unit you have gone through a short description of Wilfred Owen’s life and his war poetry especially “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “1914”. In studying the poems, an attempt at the summary is made; the themes and techniques in the poems are also explored briefly.

6.0 TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENT

Compare and contrast the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Wilfred Owen

7.0 REFERENCES/ FURTHER READING

Coote, S. (1993).The Penguin history of English literature: Penguin.

Classic Poetry (2004). Wilfred Owen Poems. PoemHunters: The World’s Poetry Archives, Pp. 4.

Drabble, M.ed(1985). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. London: Oxford University Press.
Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land (1922).The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Alexander W. Allison et al. 4th edn. New York and London: Norton Anthology, Pp. 1344 – 56.
Gelo, Omar Carlo Gioachino and Erhard Mergenthaler (2011).“Unconventional metaphors and emotional-cognitive regulation in a metacognitive interpersonal therapy”.Society for Psychotherapy Research.
Hollander, J, Kermode, F eds (1973). The Oxford Anthology of English Literature.2 Vols.
London: Oxford University Press.
Owen, Wilfred (2006). "Anthem for Doomed Youth." Norton anthology of English literature: Twentieth Century and After. Vol. F. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: Norton, Pp1971-2.