Owen uses tone to convey the brutality and bitterness of the many, young deaths as a result of the First World War. One example of his pessimistic attitude is evident in the title itself - ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. The key words ‘doomed youth’ clearly capture that there was no hope for the fate of his generation, whose destiny, which awaited them, was just to die young. The oxymoronic title signifies that the war was so barbaric, death was an inevitable outcome of it. Another example of Owen’s bitter and slightly aggravated tone is when he poses the rhetorical question - where are the ‘passing-bells’ mourning for those who ‘die as cattle’ in the battlefield? Owen continues to say that only the firing of the guns and rifles ‘can patter out
