Instead, the soldiers about to serve should be 'treated' to the mimicking of gunfire, so they will be prepared for the trenches. In foxholes, after all, the soldier's 'hasty orisons' must keep time to the guns and the rifles. Owen uses personification to characterize the guns which are angry (as his tone). The guns do their work and the alliteration of the 'rifles' and 'rapid rattle' and the consonance of the 'ts' in 'stuttering' and 'rattle' give a sense of what a battlefield really sounds like -- not a church service with slow bells, but with roaring guns and spattering bullets.
Owen makes frequent use of 'nihilistic' language in "Anthem," to convey sadness and the future sense of deadness the soldiers may experience, or at very least feel. "No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; nor any voice of mourning save the choirs," he writes. Prayers and bells and holy-sounding praise or prayers is a mockery, given what these men are being sent to do and what they will face. The poem is characterized by 'absence' rather than presence, the only real sound is "The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; / and bugles calling for them from sad shires." The words 'demented choirs' refers to the madness that many soldiers, including Owen, suffered as a result of their service and also recalls the fact that the poem is set in a church. But instead of human beings, the shells of guns make 'shrill' and 'wailing' sounds. Owen's compassion for all soldiers of all classes is evident in this stanza -- those who go mad, and also those called from rural places in the shires by the bugles of war.
The poem is broken into an octave and a sestet, and while the octave is more auditory in its images, the sestet contains the more striking images of the poem, although Owen's compassion always evident. "What candles may be held to speed them all?" he muses about the candles lit in church, thinking the candles are more likely to speed the boys to the grave than home. "Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes/Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes." The sacredness of the ceremony...
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