Anthem for Doomed Youth - AC091

Anthem for Doomed Youth - AC091

Author: AnarchoChristian December 7, 2022 Duration: 46:11

The subject of this episode is War, and the pity of War, through the poetry of Wilfred Owen.

AnarchoChristian Resources:
1914 Christmas Truce links - https://www.anarchochristian.com/1914/
Apologetics and Politics, EP 65 -
https://www.anarchochristian.com/apologetics-and-politics/
The Folly and Madness of War from John Wesley, EP 74 -
Christian War Fever and C.H. Spurgeon, EP 38 -
https://www.anarchochristian.com/christian-war-fever-and-c-h-spurgeon-ac038/
The Folly and Madness of War from John Wesley, EP 74 -
https://www.anarchochristian.com/the-folly-and-madness-or-war-from-john-wesley-ac074/

Amazon links:
Poems by Wilfred Owen -
https://amzn.to/3XDhAfg 

 

The Poems of Wilfred Owen (free, online resources):

The Preface - https://poets.org/text/preface-poems-wilfred-owen
1914 - http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/exhibits/show/ww1lit-dc0tnz/1
Arms and the boy - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47394/arms-and-the-boy
The Send-Off - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57369/the-send-off
Dulce et Decorum est - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
At a Calvary near the Ancre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_a_Calvary_near_the_Ancre
Mental cases - https://poets.org/poem/mental-cases
Disabled - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57285/disabled
The Anthem For Doomed Youth - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47393/anthem-for-doomed-youth
Strange meeting - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47395/strange-meeting
Insensibility - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57258/insensibility
Futility - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57283/futility-56d23aa2d4b57



Other Resources:
Brief biography of Wilfred Owen: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/poet-wilfred-owen-killed-in-action
All Quiet On The Western Front, "Forgive me comrade" scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw96cSYo9dU
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be A Soldier by Morton Harvey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efojGQ7gCBs
Your King and Country Want You by Helen Clarke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euAH-sjvnfU
In Flanders Fields by Sabaton - https://youtu.be/NQmMqZlLFVc 

 

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