The British poet Wilfred Owen has implemented down the sonnet, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth.' This poem got its title from another poet. This poem was set during the First World War and describes the conditions of the millions of soldiers who died fighting for their countries. Mr. Owen himself was a soldier who fought for Britain during the war and thus understood the emotions of the soldiers deeply.
His observations give us a very useful idea of the exhausting war conditions during the four years of war."Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a funeral song in which Wilfred Owen conveys his sadness and disgust for the loss of life in World War I. This poem explodes the fantasized images of war by juxtaposing the opposite worlds of reality and the romanticized expression that distorts
...it. He writes about the true experience of military death, and effectively expresses these powerful sentiments in only fourteen lines (using a sonnet, octave) by use of a somewhat violent imagery that is compounded by the constant comparison of reality to myth.He starts of by talking about the fact that in the war there are so many deaths that it's like a herd of cattle dieing. No one will get a proper funeral after dieing for the nation.
I agree with Mr. Owen as the corpses of dead soldiers in the war rotted away and were eaten by rats. There were about 14million deaths in the war which meant that it was nothing unexpected and so people treated it as a way of life, not giving them a proper burial.Further on Mr.
Owen has personified guns where he says that the battle
field is insane. He also conveys the potential damage of the weapons and makes fell the predicament soldiers in at the mercy of an uncontrollable range". I also agree on this with Mr. Owen since one bullet which travelled at an uncontrollable speed could kill a person, and these bullets were fired in ten thousands in each attack.
The potential of each attack can therefore not be imagined by anyone unless he/she has fought a war. Since Mr. Owen has fought a war before he would know that and therefore in the next line he has used onomatopoeia to give us a sound image of a war by using the effect of consonance and I feel what he said previously about the war will be true.In the poem we get a vivid image of the war when he uses words like "monstrous". this is helpful in making us understand several problems led to war, as it was not only death which affected the soldiers it was also the horrid conditions of the trench that caused them to lose their lives in a more painful and suffering way.
the poet shows clearly the turmoil the soldiers went through.Mr. Owen uses many religious words in the poem by which he criticizes lack of spiritual significance in the death of soldiers since the soldiers fight for the whole country. I don't agree with him on this since during the time of war it is impossible for a country to give proper funerals to the people who die in millions. It will cost a lot of money and time.
Besides that it is not appropriate to spend time on
someone who is dead.Seen as a whole I can conclude that a war is a dreadful sight and whose benefits are not more than the loss of lives. Soldiers fight for the nation and ended up loosing their lives which indirectly means that even if the country benefits they wont. War is just a source of mass destruction for useless matters. In case of the First World War fourteen millions died and 60milion must have lost the purpose of living.
A few entire countries were damaged even though the people didn't want a war. There will be no hope of peace and people will always live in fear.
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