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
Carrickfergus (poem) Carrickfergus (poem) Carrickfergus is a 44-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in 1937 and first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection "The Earth Compels" (1938). The poem reflects on MacNeice's childhood in Carrickfergus, a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Although the title of the poem is "Carrickfergus", the text of the poem refers to "Carrick", as the town is known locally and colloquially. Louis MacNeice was born in 1907 in Belfast, as he notes in the opening lines of "Carrickfergus": <poem> "I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries </poem> In