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
Five Bells the scruffy, unruly, unimportant Irishman gives the poem a tender and human character." Inspired by the poem the Australian artist John Olsen completed his painting "Five Bells" on commission in 1963. It was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1999. The artist also painted "Salute to Five Bells" as a mural for the rear foyer area of the Sydney Opera House concert hall in 1973. The Australian author Gail Jones wrote a novel titled "Five Bells" in 2011, and noted in her acknowledgments: "The first debt of this project is to Kenneth Slessor's elegiac poem, "Five