"the conclusion of the war. The series was announced by the BBC in October 2013, along with other programmes that played a part in the BBC World War I centenary season. It was a Red Planet Production with BBC Worldwide as the distributor. Filming took place in Poland. Telewizja Polska and Apple Film Production were co-producers. The series aired in the pre-watershed time-slot of 7pm, and the script was written for a younger audience and family viewing. The title was taken from the first line of Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem, ""Anthem for Doomed Youth"": ""What passing-bells for these who die"
"Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are ""Dulce et Decorum est"", ""Insensibility"", ""Anthem"
"the commission, which gave him complete freedom in deciding what to compose. He chose to set the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead interwoven with nine poems about war by the English poet Wilfred Owen. Owen, who was born in 1893, was serving as the commander of a rifle company when he was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, just one week before the Armistice. Although he was virtually unknown at the time of his death, he has subsequently come to be revered as one of the great war poets."
"Spring Offensive (poem) ""Spring Offensive"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I, and was written after a battle charge in April 1917. <poem> Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease And, finding comfortable chests and knees Carelessly slept. To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge, Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world. Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge, For though the summer oozed into their"
"a permanent stoppage in all bolts"" <nowiki>""</nowiki>. The main theme of Wilfred Owen’s ""Soldier's Dream"" is the pity of war that he communicates through the image of Jesus smiling kindly. The poet wanted to represent the trocity of warfare which is why the first stanza is mainly a list of weapons that were used in World War I. Soldier's Dream is a reflection of the author’s feelings about the time he passed in the trenches; unlike other war poets such as Rupert Brooke (author of ""The Soldier""), who did not participate in military actions, Owen had an active role in"
"of Owen's poems set in the ""War Requiem"" of Benjamin Britten. It is sung by the tenor and baritone soloists accompanied by chamber orchestra, joined at the closing line ""Let us sleep now..."" by the full forces of orchestra, organ, and soprano soloist, mixed chorus and children's chorus, singing Latin texts. The line, ""I am the enemy you killed, my friend"", appears on the memorial sculpture to Owen erected by Wilfred Owen Association, (sculptors husband-and-wife Paul and Ruth de Monchaux) in the grounds of Shrewsbury Abbey (in whose parish his family settled) to mark his birth centenary in 1993. Strange"
"obey. But thou, shrieking harbinger, Foul pre-currer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak'st With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st, 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence: Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a"
"calf left to pasture; But instead became the only bull in the field. All for nothing my bitter battle of farming. My keeper, just like all the other heartless and cruel. I was a thing of monetary value! With me fields and gardens are started. Without me granaries are barren and bare. 14. Clay oxen were made to pray for the spring; Stone oxen were worshipped to bring the rain. Now the earth-moving oxen are executed; With whom will the deer roam the slopes? The goats near the wheat fields have lost their friend. This is what breaks the heart"
"Miners (poem) ""Miners"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. He wrote the poem in Scarborough in January 1918, a few weeks after leaving Craiglockhart War Hospital where he had been recovering from shell-shock. Owen wrote the poem in direct response to the Minnie Pit Disaster in which 156 miners died. After his discharge from Craiglockhart and a short spell of leave, Owen rejoined his army unit (the 3/5th battalion the Manchester Regiment) in Scarborough. While his men were in stationed at Burniston Road Barracks a mile north-west of the town, Owen and other officers were billeted in the Clarence Gardens"
"Strange Meeting (poem) ""Strange Meeting"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The poem was written sometime in 1918 and was published in 1919 after Owen's death. The poem is narrated by a soldier who goes to the underworld to escape the hell of the battlefield and there he meets the enemy soldier he killed the day before. This poem has been described as one of Owen's ""most haunting and complex war poems"". Pararhyme or double consonance is a particular feature of the poetry of Wilfred Owen and also occurs throughout ""Strange"
"Arms and the Boy ""Arms and the Boy"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>""Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood""</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death."
"At a Calvary near the Ancre ""At a Calvary near the Ancre"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. The title references the Ancre, a tributary of the Somme. It was the scene of two notable battles in 1916. The poem is constructed of three verses of 4 lines each in an abab rhyming scheme: The poem links the Crucifixion of Christ to the battlefield of the First World War. Not only are there allusions to the crucifixion narratives but the Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13: 16). Another allusion which links to the Crucifixion is the crossroads of the first"
"will replace them on the battlefield. It ends with: <poem> ""Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! ""We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. ""No soldier's paid to kick against his powers. ""We laughed, knowing that better men would come, ""And greater wars; when each proud fighter brags ""He wars on Death - for lives; not men - for flags.""</poem> The Next War (poem) ""The Next War"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It was written in late September 1917, and revised in July 1918. It is no. 160 in ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The poem"
"him but at ""the strong men who were whole"". Disabled (poem) ""Disabled"" is a war poem by Wilfred Owen written in 1917. It expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenaged soldier in World War I who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined to a wheelchair. The subject contrasts the predicament he is now in with the youthful pleasures he had enjoyed ""before he threw away his knees"". He recalls the impetuous circumstances in which he enlisted, notes how the crowds that greeted his return were smaller and less enthusiastic than those who cheered his"
"Apologia Pro Poemate Meo ""Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The title means ""in defence of my poetry"" and is often viewed as a rebuttal to a remark in Robert Graves' letter ""for God's sake cheer up and write more optimistically - the war's not ended yet but a poet should have a spirit above wars."" Alternatively, the poem is seen as a possible response to ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"". The poem describes some of the horrors of war and how this leads to a lack of"
"share You shall not hear their mirth: Apologia Pro Poemate Meo ""Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The title means ""in defence of my poetry"" and is often viewed as a rebuttal to a remark in Robert Graves' letter ""for God's sake cheer up and write more optimistically - the war's not ended yet but a poet should have a spirit above wars."" Alternatively, the poem is seen as a possible response to ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"". The poem describes some of the horrors of war and"
"original article, with ""doomed""; the famous epithet of ""patient minds"" is also a correction of his. The amended manuscript copy, in both men's handwriting, still exists and may be found at the Wilfred Owen Manuscript Archive on the world wide web. The revision process for the poem was fictionalized by Pat Barker in her novel ""Regeneration"". The poem is among those set in the ""War Requiem"" of Benjamin Britten. During live performances of the song ""Paschendale"", Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson often recites the first half of the poem. The title of BBC WW1 drama ""The Passing Bells"" derives from"
"Disabled (poem) ""Disabled"" is a war poem by Wilfred Owen written in 1917. It expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenaged soldier in World War I who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined to a wheelchair. The subject contrasts the predicament he is now in with the youthful pleasures he had enjoyed ""before he threw away his knees"". He recalls the impetuous circumstances in which he enlisted, notes how the crowds that greeted his return were smaller and less enthusiastic than those who cheered his departure, and laments how women no longer look at"
"opening stanzas evoke the poet gazing into the fire imagining a primeval forest older than myth, ""before the fauns"". But his traumatic experiences on the Western Front intrude on his somewhat romantic meditation: ""Wrote a poem on the Colliery Disaster: but I get mixed up with the War at the end. It is short, but oh! sour."" The gently hissing coals recall the moans of the dying miners ""writhing for air""; and Owen intertwines their death with that of soldiers at the front, imagining heaps of white bones in the fire's ashes and ""muscled bodies charred"". Yet in the future,"
"The Dead-Beat ""The Dead-Beat"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. Owen developed the poem while he was a patient at Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers suffering with mental illness. It was here that he met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon and where his personal psychological healing from the traumas of war. ""The Dead-Beat"" marked the beginning of his writings as representations of soldiers who could no longer tell their own stories. In writing the poem, Owen received help from Sassoon, who he elsewhere called one of his dearest friends. Sassoon's influence is"
"cowardice in ""The Dead-Beat"". He also attempts to emulate the vernacular of a common soldier in a realistic war setting. In particular, ""The Dead-Beat"" depicts how war can isolate rather than unite individuals who share common causes or experiences. The Dead-Beat ""The Dead-Beat"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. Owen developed the poem while he was a patient at Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers suffering with mental illness. It was here that he met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon and where his personal psychological healing from the traumas of war. ""The Dead-Beat"""
"Insensibility ""Insensibility"" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War which explores the effect of warfare on soldiers, and the long- and short-term psychological effects that it has on them. The poem's title refers to the fact that the soldiers have lost the ability to feel due to the horrors which they faced on the Western Front during the First World War. During and after the First World War many combatants and former combatants found their lives and minds permanently altered by the violent, loud and traumatic life of trench warfare. This disorder was called ""shell"
"kills the last, but slowly dies as he sinks into a watery foxhole while his hand grasps into the water. Afterwards, the surviving animals discover a copy of an implied Bible in the ruins of a church. Inspired by the book's teachings, they decide to rebuild a society dedicated to peace and non-violence (using the helmets of the soldiers to construct houses). The cartoon features an original song written to the tune of ""Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."" According to Hugh Harman's obituary in the ""New York Times"" and Ben Mankiewicz, host of ""Cartoon Alley"", the cartoon was nominated for"
"The Next War (poem) ""The Next War"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It was written in late September 1917, and revised in July 1918. It is no. 160 in ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The poem is among those set in the ""War Requiem"" of Benjamin Britten. The poem is in a sonnet form and follows a conventional sonnet structure. It starts out with a quote from Siegfried Sassoon. <poem>""War's a joke for me and you,"" ""While we know such dreams are true.""</poem> The poem goes on to declare that death is not the enemy and that better men"
"the centuries will still doze by the fire, its coals themselves formed out of ""rich loads"", of groans and toil in the dark pits of war. The coming years, preserved in their rooms like insects in amber will be oblivious of the millions of dead lads - soldiers and miners - buried under the earth. For a projected volume of his work, Owen gave the poem the subtitle: ""How the future will forget the dead in war"". Owen sent the poem to ""The Nation"" in the evening of the day he finished it. The proofs arrived while Owen was preparing"
"war memorial tablets to parishioners who died serving in the separate World Wars. One name on the tablet for the First World War is war poet Wilfred Owen (as Lieutenant W.E.S. Owen M.C., Manchester Regiment). In the Abbey churchyard is a memorial sculpture entitled ""Symmetry"" and erected by the Wilfred Owen Association on his birth centenary (1993) by Paul de Monchaux, incorporating a line from Owen's poem ""Strange Meeting"" inscribed by Paul's wife, Ruth. In recent times, the area surrounding the Abbey has been prone to flooding. At the Dissolution, the Abbey had two rings of five bells, one in"
"of the evening. Gnats wail and lambs bleat in the dusk. As night approaches within the final moments of the song, death is slowly approaching alongside the end of the year. The full-grown lambs, like the grapes, gourds and hazel nuts, will be harvested for the winter. The twittering swallows gather for departure, leaving the fields bare. The whistling red-breast and the chirping cricket are the common sounds of winter. The references to Spring, the growing lambs and the migrating swallows remind the reader that the seasons are a cycle, widening the scope of this stanza from a single season"
"‘bayonet’ / ‘flint lock’ / ‘pikel’. Soldier's Dream Soldier's Dream is a poem written by English war poet Wilfred Owen. It was written in October 1917 in Craiglockhart, a suburb in the south-west of Edinburgh (Scotland), while the author was recovering from shell shock in the trenches, inflicted during World War I. The poet died one week before the Armistice of Compiègne, which ended the conflict on the Western Front (November 1918). The poem was first published in 1983 as part of ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The original manuscript can now be found in The English Faculty Library at"
"Futility (poem) ""Futility"" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most renowned poets of World War I. The poem was written in May 1918 and published as no. 153 in ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The poem is well known for its departure from Owen's famous style of including disturbing and graphic images in his work; the poem instead having a more soothing, somewhat light-hearted feel to it in comparison. A previous secretary of the Wilfred Owen Association argues that the bitterness in Owen's other poems ""gives place to the pity that characterises his finest work"". Futility"
"Ubique (poem) ""Ubique"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, published in ""The Five Nations"" in 1903. Its title is derived from the Motto and Battle Honour of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, however the opening lines are attributed to the lack of knowledge of Latin within the ordinary ranks of the Gunners. Ubique is pronounced ""Ooh-Bee-Kway"", but is generally pronounced as ""You-Bee-Kway"". T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". Ubique (""everywhere"" in Latin) is the motto of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. It was given to"
"shock"" or ""neurasthenia"". Wilfred Owen was diagnosed with neurasthenia in 1916, within four months of arriving in France, and was briefly invalided home. The ""We wise"" to whom the poem refers might, as Jon Stallworthy has suggested, be construed as ""we poets"", to which the Owen scholar Douglas Kerr adds the possibilities ""we officers"", ""we shellshocked neurasthenics"" and ""we cowards"". Kerr describes the relationship of the poem to Owen's neurasthenia as ""obvious though complex"". Insensibility ""Insensibility"" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War which explores the effect of warfare on soldiers, and the long- and"
"the Spring Offensive were the 2/5th, 2/6th and 2/7th battalions, serving as part of 199th (2/1st Manchester) Brigade, part of 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division, all battalions of the Territorial Force. The later-prominent war poet, Wilfred Owen served with the 2nd Battalion, Manchesters in the later stages of the war. On 1 October 1918, Owen led units of it to storm a number of enemy strong points near the village of Joncourt. For his courage and leadership in the Joncourt action, he was awarded the Military Cross, an award he had always sought in order to justify himself. On 4"
"could take credit for liberating Brussels, and after an ill-tempered exchange of letters with Foch, Haig regained control of Second Army (4 November). German fighting capacity was deteriorating, with much of their resistance coming from machine guns and artillery. The last offensive began on 4 November, including Sambre-Oise (where the poet Wilfred Owen was killed) where makeshift tank bridges were used, and the Forest of Mormal where the BEF had fought in August 1914. The crossing of the Sambre (4 November) saw further mass surrenders of German troops and made the German High Command realise that they must make peace"