Analysis Of Anthem For Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen who was born in 1893 is still named as one of the leading British poets of war poetry about World War I in the English literature. Throughout his poetries, he vividly captures the reality of war and chaos inside of the soldiers. Before the war, Owen was a language tutor in France, but he served in an army because he felt pressured by the government’s propaganda. Nevertheless, when he actually got into the army, he disillusioned and realized both pity and horror of war. From his dreadful experience, the anti-war feeling strongly created in his mind. Therefore, there is a link of idea about ‘anti-war feeling’ throughout his poems. Wilfred Owen expresses his anti-war feeling through the literary techniques; simile, personification, metaphor, and ailteration. To fully express his anti-war feeling about the reality of war, Owen

In the opening lines, we can realize how the dead soldiers have been treated, ‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ The meaning of ‘tolling the passing bell’ is when someone announces a soul has left from the body, the death during the funeral ceremony.In Wilfred Owen’s poem, ‘the passing-bells’ is a symbol of lack of humanity. Wilfred Owen employs this phrase to suggest that there are no people who actually care about their individual deaths. Owen compares the young soldiers with lack of indiviudality and inhumanity like a slaugther; they become dehumanized. By reversing personification, Owen expresses the dead soldiers do not get the passing bells of a proper funeral what they desire like slaugthers. This conveys that Wilfred Owen is disgusted the war and the pointless deaths of soldiers. Additionally, the rhetorical question allows the reader to imagine the phenomenon of the war and question its validity. Moreover, Owen