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
The Bells (poem) theme of mourning over a lost wife, courted in sledge, married and then killed in a fire as the husband looks on. The tolling of the iron bells reflects the final madness of the grief-stricken husband. The sounds of the verses, specifically the repetitive ""bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells"," lie on a narrow line between sense and nonsense, causing a feeling of instability. Poe uses the word "tintinnabulation", apparently a coinage of his own, based on the Latin word for "bell", "tintinnabulum". The series of "bells" echo the imagined sounds of the various bells, from the silver bells