¡®Anthem for Doomed Youth¡¯ written by Wilfred Owen is a poem about a war. It is like a series of comparisons that show the difference between death on the battle filed in wartime and death at ¡°home¡± in peacetime. Reading this poem, I could feel the sorrow of sentimental loneliness; the contrast of peaceful death in normal life and tragic death in the battle maximized such feeling.
             The speaker starts by criticizing the useless death on the battle field. ¡®¡who die as cattle¡¡¯ in line one is a metaphor, comparing dying on a battle field as cattle being slaughtered. This indicates the speaker¡¯s negative attitude toward battles. I thought that the speaker might have lost his loved one during the battle; the introduction gave me a strong feeling that something caused such great grief of the speaker, and I am assuming the cause as a sad memory of loosing his loved one. He then moves on by beginning to express the loneliness. ¡°¡no prayers nor bells, nor any voice of mourning save the choirs¡¡± from line five to six is the example of the isolation of the death on the battle. This phrase, saying that there¡¯s nothing to À§·Î the misery of death on battle, implies that dying on the battle filed is isolated from everyone and one would not be able to help his loneliness. I thought that the author¡¯s attempt to make the mood of loneliness by using repetitive form-list of things that would be with normal death that is not with death on battle field-was clever. The author well expresses the loneliness by creating dark mood and the tone of the voice become very serious and deep. Finally at the end of the poem, the speaker finishes the grief and calmly ends the poem. Unlike the death in normal life where a white shroud is draped over the coffin, in the death on the battle, ¡°the pallor of girls¡¯ brow shall be their pall¡± (line 12). What this means is that the dead soldiers...