Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Claude Mckay's "If we must Die."

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Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Claude Mckay's "If we must Die" are two poems that share several similarities. They are both sonnets and pertain to struggle. They are both are set in different periods, but are set in the same century (1900s).

The sonnets, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "If we must Die" are set about fifty years apart in the 20th century, and they focus on the First World War and the Civil Rights movement respectively. Each of these poems has described the state of its characters very well because of the imagery in them. The words that are used in them rhyme very well too, which shows that the poets have been very selective. This...
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