Elegy For Lost Boys

Style Of Writing: Lento Genre: Gothic/War Poetry Written For: Standard English Homework In Response To: 'Mental Cases' - Wilfred Owen

Wander beneath blood-black skies, who art thou ravished?

Under sickly mounds of human squander, these purgatorial shades,

E’er baring hellish laughter; wherefore wander these, tormented minds? -

Swelter beneath blood-smear masks of dead masquerades.

 

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,

Treading eerie Limbo, henceforth, endlessly ere gates of hell;

Scratching madly with eyeballs back in their brains,

Drowning themselves within screeching calls of Dawn’s tolling knell.