Anthem for Doomed Youth the first line of the poem: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" The third album by British band The Libertines is named "Anthems For Doomed Youth", and features a song of the same name. American composer Stephen Whitehead included an orchestral setting of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" as a movement in his orchestral piece "Three Laments on the Great War" for soloists and orchestra. The piece is scored as a duet for mezzo-soprano and bass/baritone with orchestra. Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. It incorporates the
If We Must Die comprised of self-assertion. The poem was recited in the film "August 28: A Day in the Life of a People", which debuted at the opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. If We Must Die "If We Must Die" is a 1919 poem by Claude McKay published in the July issue of "The Liberator". McKay wrote the poem as a response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during Red Summer. The poem was later reprinted in "The Messenger" and the "Workers' Dreadnought" (London) later that year. The poem was also