Hymn for Doomed Youth by Wilfred OwenThe sonnet "Hymn for Doomed Youth", by Wilfred Owen, criticizes the war. The speaker is Wilfred Owen, whose tone is first and foremost bitter, angry and ironic. Then it fills with intense sadness and an infinite feeling of emptiness. The poet uses poetic techniques such as diction, images and sounds to convey his idea. The title, "Hymn for Doomed Youth", gives the first impression of the poem. A "hymn" is a song of praise, perhaps sacred, so we get the impression that the poem might be about something religious or joyful. However, the anthem is for "Doomed Youth", which is obviously a bad thing. The title essentially summarizes what poetry is; a mixture of thoughts related to religion and death, irony and cynicism. The poem does not slowly begin to focus on the point it is making: there is an immediacy of war with the use of the present tense. Also, start with a rhetorical question. With rhetorical questions, he says that dead soldiers, or "cattle", die insignificantly, because there are no "death knells" for them. He also emphasizes the enormous number of dead, meaning that there would not be enough bells, nor time to ring the bells for each soldier. The speaker goes on to answer his own question with lines full of onomatopoeia, personification, assonance and alliteration: the 'only' substitute for bells are bullets fired in war from 'babbling rifles' and 'guns' with 'monstrous rages' . This type of beginning forms a solid foundation for the poem: it already gives the reader a strong idea of ​​what the poet's intentions are. The poem continues the theme of negativity when the speaker criticizes the use of religion during the war, and perhaps questions God. Using sacred things such as "prayers", "bells", and "choirs" as tools to mourn the insignificant "cattle ", Owen says that the dead would only be laughed at. The vast number of dead "cattle" is described by Own when he says that there are not enough 'candles' to 'speed them all up', and there are no official funerals, but they can only be mourned by releasing their 'sacred parting glimmers' and that 'the paleness The girls' eyebrows will be their pall.' The huge number of dead 'cattle' is described by Own when he says there are not enough 'candles' to 'speed them all up,' and there... in the middle of paper......d 'shells'. All these words are in the octet: there is no presence of war vocabulary in the second part of the poem used to mock religion, while in the sestet it is used in a "holier" sense. Throughout the poem there is an obvious presence of negativity. In addition to the actual content, there is a lot of special diction used to reinforce the negativity : the first in the title 'Hymn for Doomed Youth'. The theme of negativity continues with the question used at the beginning of both the octet and the sextet, and the questions give a sense of uncertainty, insecurity and negativity, but Owen uses them also to underline a point. This theme continued with negative and pessimistic words such as only, no, nor, demented, plaintive, sad, mourning, no, and slow. Some of these words have been used more than once and often used closely, which reinforces their effect. Finally, the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth", by Wilfred Owen, criticizes war and the use of religion to mourn dead soldiers. , while pitying the mourners. To reinforce his points, he uses strong diction, images, and sounds.