We see how the young men who die in war are denied these ceremonial goodbyes. It also refers to funeral practices, such as including candles and flowers in the church service. The poem refers to aspects of religious ceremony, such as bells and choirs.

The poem reflects Owen’s loss of faith as he shows how inadequate religion and faith are when faced with the reality of the trenches. He does this by comparing the soldiers to “cattle” dying in their herds, with no ceremony and little comfort in their final moments. In this poem Owen shows that the glory portrayed by those writers is an illusion. These aspects were ignored by others - such as Jessie Pope - who wrote propaganda persuading young men to fight for their country. One is to refer to young people, in this case young men who have gone off to war.As Owen was a soldier himself, he witnessed the brutality and horrors of war. The poem, then, is not an anthem to a particular person but to youth in general. The poem's title does not say a doomed youth but simply doomed youth. The poem is an anthem, which is a hymn or sacred song, typically written in praise of someone or something.

The title of the poem announces its principal theme. 'Anthem for Doomed Youth,' written in the form of a sonnet, is generally regarded as being among Owen's best poems. The poetry they wrote in response to their war experiences captured that sense of futility and disillusionment. Many artists came away from the experience highly disillusioned by the war's carnage and futility. The number of casualties was high, and soldiers had to fight not only the enemy but dirt, rats, disease, flooded trenches, mud, and the ongoing psychological trauma caused by incessant shelling. New, more destructive weapons were being used, and both sides were mired down in trench warfare on the western front. The war, however, dragged on, with little progress. Many writers of Owen's generation went off to war with high ideals, believing that they were playing their part in protecting their nation from Germany. Owen was a soldier during World War I (1914-1918), and in 1917 he was hospitalized for 'shell shock,' a common psychological affliction during the war today shell shock is called combat stress reaction and is marked by fatigue, disorientation, confusion, loss of memory, and similar symptoms. The poem was written in 1917 while Owen was a patient at the Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh, Scotland. The poem was first published in 1920 in the collection Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Siegfried Sassoon, another World War I poet whose work and personal guidance greatly influenced Owen. 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' is a poem by the British poet Wilfred Owen, generally regarded as one of Great Britain's finest World War I poets.

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