Complete Study Guide for Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth (CCEA Aligned)

This comprehensive study pack offers a multi-layered approach to teaching one of Owen's most famous poems. Designed specifically for the CCEA English Literature specification, it explores the poem’s core tensions of identity, conflict and existential choice.

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What’s Included:

• Detailed Video Analysis: A deep-dive exploration into Wilfred Owen’s raw testimony from the trenches, breaking down the auditory "music of war" and the shocking dehumanisation of soldiers through engaging visuals.
• Quote & Theme Analysis PDF: Detailed annotations focusing on the "cattle-like" slaughter of the Western Front and Owen’s use of onomatopoeia, alliteration and personification to replace traditional funeral rites with the sounds of weaponry
• Visual Revision Poster: A high-impact graphic deconstructing the "Battlefield Funeral" (monstrous guns, stuttering rifles, wailing shells) versus "Real Remembrance" (holy glimmers, pale brows and the drawing-down of blinds).
• Comprehensive Study Guide: Includes a glossary of 25 literary terms (from Iambic Pentameter to the Petrarchan Sonnet structure), a 10-question knowledge review quiz with a full answer key and high-level essay prompts
• Interactive Slide Deck: A 14-page visual journey through the poem's "architecture of grief", highlighting the critical role of Siegfried Sassoon and the structural shift (Volta) between the chaotic octave and the somber sestet
• Poem Comparison Grid: A synthesis of Owen’s central messages, offering a framework to contrast his "bitter truth" with the "glorified" war narratives of poets such as Lord Tennyson and Henry Newbolt

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the Historical Context: Analyse how Owen’s experience with "shell shock" (now known as PTSD) at Craiglockhart War Hospital fuelled his outrage against the lack of proper mourning for fallen soldiers
• Analyse Subversive Form: Evaluate how Owen uses the traditional sonnet form and iambic pentameter to critique the "mockeries" of state and religious funeral rituals.

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