How Is The Dehumanisation Of Anthem For Doomed Youth

The caliginous effect of war has entailed the dehumanise of soldiers where death apprehends reality as killing the opposing mortal is a sign of success and failing for one’s country is futile as the soldier deceased and no longer needed.

Wilford Owen delivers a starling message about the reality and costs of war. He highlights the dehumanisation and futile deaths of the soldier’s life’s in the year 1917 throughout the gloomy war in his poems Anthemed for doomed youth and the next war.
In Wilford Owen’s poem, Anthem for doomed youth the battlefields dull conditions influenced the dehumanisation of the men at war, reducing them to cattle “what passing-bells for who die as cattle”. Initially the crucial repetition of dehumanisation on the enforcement
of the soldier’s death was slow and far worse than painful, “each slow dusk a drowning-down of blinds”.
The sombre use of zoomorphism, demonstrates the dehumanised state of the soldier’s dreadful conditions in war “what passing-bells……. cattle”. Also, the recurring use of alliteration “each slow dusk a drowning-down of blinds”, foreshadows the inevitability of the countless deaths lost in the destructive battlefield.
The dehumanisation of the soldiers in war was exposed to covey the amount of deaths in the battlefield would equal to the mass amount of cattle being slaughtered which configures the physic amount of men’s life’s that where tragically lost in war “what passing-bells for who die as cattle”.
The men in war where going to die regardless as the crucial unforgiving weaponries of war would bring down the enemy no matter how tough and courage’s the soldiers are “each slow dusk a drowning-down of blinds.
Initially the profound dehumanisation of the soldiers that where apart of war, was initiated and conveyed to show such futility of war can eliminate useful human lives with persistence of death.

In Wilford Owen’s poem “The Next War”, Owen conveys how the Soldiers were well aware that death was upcoming, however their emotions were divorced from the reality of life and merely focused on to holding the flag of war and honouring their country, “He was on death-for lives; not men-for flags”.
The soldiers found war futile and pointless as they knew the next war would eventually come with the persistence of death “we laughed, knowing that better men would come”.
The use of truncated sentences separates the soldier’s emotions to the reality of war “He was on death -……………-for flags”. The significant foreshadowing of death, prefigures the inevitability of the next war and the soldier’s death was always seen in the eyes of the soldiers “We laughed, knowing that better men…….
Come”.
The words death, not men and for flags represent the soldier’s heartless commitment to war as they weren’t concerned about death, however about saving life’s and holding the flags of war “He was on death-for lives; not men-for flags”.
Soldiers found death and war a never-ending process which soldiers found futile as they laughed that war is certainly not going to end “We laughed, knowing that better men……. Come”.
The futility of war is highlighted through the pointlessness of the fighter’s deaths, while the losses of the soldiers resemble no meaning, nor achieving anything as war sets the fuel to the fire of empowerment. The message that the persona configures throughout his poems “the next war” and “Anthem for doomed youth” identifies the dehumanisation and futile deaths of the soldiers that where apart of war as Owen conveys the reality of war using hidden English techniques and war related
terminology.

Conclusively the unsympathetic battlefield has abducted the soldier’s emotions into the reality of war, holding the flags of victory rather than fighting for survival.