![]() The following lines, lines five through seven, state that no real expressions of sorrow in general, including singing, get heard by the men, so there is no reason to do so because like prayers, singing is already provided to the men by their explosive devices. ![]() Then the next three lines, lines two through four, point out that any requests to a higher power for the servicemen done by people back home cannot be heard by the soldiers because they are canceled out by prayers already coming from their noisy weaponry. ![]() Line one of Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” wonders if any soldiers, those who got killed on the battlefield in a similar fashion as animals butchered for food, will hear the mourners who commemorate their deaths by ringing instruments. ![]()
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