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 Fly (poem) die", a conclusion to which Paul Miner comments: "Brain-death is real death". The Fly (poem) "The Fly" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection "Songs of Experience" in 1794. It was set to music in 1965 by Benjamin Britten as part of his song cycle "Songs and Proverbs of William Blake". Esperanza Spalding recorded this poem on her 2010 album Chamber Music Society. Blake printed the poem with the text set in the branches of trees, an image of a nurse and a toddler in the foreground, and a