"Patterns" vs. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" Poetry could arguably be the most prominent form of self-expression. It is seen in the form of song lyrics, religion, and general poems. The great aspect of poetry is that no one poem or poet is the same. This includes Amy Lowell's "Patterns" and Wilfred Owens' "Anthem for Doomed Youth;" however, both works can be compared almost as equally as contrasted. Some aspects of poetry are completely different. Other aspects of poetry are similar, but accompanied by differences; these two poems involve both circumstances. There are three main differences amid these two poems; all three are technical differences rather than differences in meaning. The settings of the works are emphatically dissimilar. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" seems to be set at the present era for the writer. Owen appears to have written about the Great War, which took place in the early twentieth century and existing throughout the eastern hemisphere. On the contrary, Lowell's "Patterns" is an account of a young woman of the past who lost a loved one involved in campaigns occurring in the early eighteenth century among provinces in Belgium. Proof is given in the lines, "Fighting with the Duke of Flanders, In a pattern called war." The second difference between the two poems is the images. Images in Owen's poem are predominantly auditory. For example, "...the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle..." and "The shrill, demented choirs of wailings shells." However, "Patterns" takes the visual approach: "And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills" and "...Makes a pink and silver stain On the gravel." Lastly, the formats of these two poems are quite disparate. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is classified as a sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen-lined poem, metered in iambic pentameter,...