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Anthem for Doomed Youth" A Critical Analysis
War is a part of human nature and will continue to be for years to come. Through many depictions of war one might assume that war is for courageous individuals and full of many heroes. The truth is that war is brutal, dangerous, and an uncivilized practice. The theme of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen is that people should see war as young men going into the face of death with their family being left behind to mourn them.
The beginning of Owens poem uses comparison by relating the boys on the front dieing to cattle being slaughtered. This line also says there is no bells for the boys that are dieing.
"What passing bells for these who die as cattle

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Only the monstrous anger of the guns

3Through Personification, the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous, even evil

Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle

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Can patter out their hasty orisons
and I should have added an......

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