Topic > Hymn for Doomed Youth Analysis by Wilfred Owen - 703

Some men are victorious while others lie dead and forsaken in the grace of death. There are no witnesses who can claim the memory of a deceased soldier. They are condemned by any religious funeral. No spiritual rights surround the death of a fallen soldier. Overview (2001) stated: "There are no prayers or bells/nor is there any voice of mourning, on the battlefield, the only observance of death is the choruses of grenades moaning, just as a mourner might cry of pain at a funeral" (page NA). The writer believes that the Church of Death represents heroes who do not receive the normal ceremonies used to honor the dead. This shows that instead of honoring those who have fallen in battle, leaders indifferently approve of their loss