about the poem "Anthem for doomed youth" by Wilfred Owen

this poem "the anthem of doomed youth" the poet wilfred owen is a war poet and the poem is the sad true about the outcome/result of war 

the poet talks about the death of young soldiers in the war and compares the burial and moments before death of a normal person and the death of a soldier during war.  Soldiers of WWI would definitely identify with this poem; no one else (i.e. civilians) could understand everything that they went through during the war. They are fighting a war without knowing the real reasons behind it. They were often poorly equipped. They are the doomed youth of their day.

Line 1: "passing-bells" is a tolling of a bell to announce a soul is dieing. The soldiers are compared to cattle in this line 

Line 2: "anger of the guns" is the only sound that the soldiers hear while they die, they are the only bells that ring for them they do not get to hear the soothing church bells before death.

Lines 3-4: The only prayers these dead and dying men receive are the sounds from the guns. 

Lines 5-8: These men don't go through the religious rights before death; religion is supposed to be about peace and loving your neighbor not about killing them. It would be a mockery to bury them with the same rights as others, because they have basically been trained to take on the devil spirit; killing unscrupulously. They don't hear the sounds of loved ones buzzing around them filled with sorrow; all they hear are the sounds of war, death, and bugles.

Lines 9-11: When a soldier dies in battle it is a common practice to send other soldiers to deliver the news to the family of the fallen soldier. The men who did this job often did not have to say anything to the families; the look in the soldier's eyes or even his presence told them what they longed not to hear.

Lines 12-14: This is in a sense the funeral scene; there is mourning and flowers, all of which the soldier did not receive out on the battle field. The girl's pall is so great that it could be used to cover the soldier's coffin. The "drawing-down of blinds" signifies both death and grief.

this poem seeks to expose the hypocrisy of funerals for soldiers who were senselessly killed on the battle field.