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Wilfred Owen’s poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth� was written while he was a patient in a Scottish hospital, receiving treatment for shell shock during the First World War. Owen wrote the poem in 1917. He died in 1918 of gun shots he received in battle. He was only 25 when he died. “Anthem for Doomed Youth� is a lament for the young men whose deaths he witnessed, both on the field and in hospital. It is a poem that acts as a mourning prayer or song for soldiers who might never get to receive a proper funeral, and a reminder of the horrors of war and the sacrifice of the younger generation.
On the literal level, “Anthem for Doomed Youth� asks what kind of funeral these soldiers have when they die on the field of battle. The answer is that they have no beautiful rituals, only the sights and sounds of warfare and destruction. The first seven lines of the poem focus on the noise and horror of the battlefield. In line eight, our attention shifts to the “sad......

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