Known for his abrasive and heart-wrenching depictions of war, Wilfred Owen is known for going right to the heart of the reader through his poetry to evoke his or her raw emotions. In the poem, "Anthem For Doomed Youth", Owen once again finds the shortest and most abrupt and straight-forward descriptions he possibly can to describe soldiers being slaughtered on the battlefield. Not only is Owen describing their deaths, but he is describing, how they die: with indifference among them. There is no separate emotion for each man, they die all the same, like cattle going off to the slaughterhouse. The poet appears to be portraying war as a situation that one should avoid, because although one is dying for their country, initially, their death is one of little meaning. They are not among family and those who love them, but around men just the same as they, whose deaths will also mean little until their bodies are taken home to be laid to rest among their families.
             The tone of the poem is resentment for those who do not take the time to consider an event such as this and promote war, but also pity for the soldiers themselves, who have little knowledge of what may happen to them..
             In the first four lines, Owen utilizes a lot of harsh imagery by comparing the dying soldiers to cattle being slaughtered. They receive no bells mourning their deaths and announcing it to the world, instead they hear gunshots flying at them and their fellow men. When the author states "Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle can patter out their hasty orisons.", he is stating that if the men were receiving prayers, possibly at their funeral, the sound of gunshots would drown them out. Also, one must take into consideration how prayers are said in a church. Voices boom in unison, much like that of bullets in a rifle. Through this imagery, the reader can then create a picture in his or her mind that triggers a feeling of pity ...