Sonnet, Chaucer, Research(Jin)

Summary of my researched sonnet(Anthem for Doomed Youth) in my own words
Where there any funerals held for those soldiers who died anonymously in battle?
They only had the sound of loud guns and battle noises for their prayers.
They were not mocked or given any tune to their death.
When they died they only saw the sad eyes of other people.
The families of the soldiers are sad, all they can do is greave at the news of death.
-Meaning in my own words- Soldiers who die in battle are not given the chance to have a proper death, they were probably forced off to war and received no compensation. War is sad and tragic.


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Wilfred Owen

Anthem for Doomed Youth

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,--

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

-It was an interesting sonnet I found online about World War I, I liked the slight rhyme to it, and the use of detailed/imagery and the language.

Chaucer
"He was a POW during the Hundred Years’ War, captured by France and later released after ransom was paid."
http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/2010/09/13/geoffrey-chaucer/
Chaucer possibly had hatred against the French, but yet he still incorporates French into some of his tales.

^Interesting animated video I found online on Wife of Bath, great graphics/pretty humorous. Pretty excellent summary of the tale.