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Confronting the Lies Wilfred Owen was a war poet who wrote during the First World War. Owen believed that his poetry was away to tell the people back home how it really was at the front lines. Especially in 'Dulce et Decorum Est', Owen really makes people question their beliefs and concentrates a lot on the lives of the soldier at the front lines and the effects the war has on them. In 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' however, Owen tends to concentrate on funerals and compares them with funerals back home. He tries to tell us how funerals at the front line lack in dignity and ceremony in the octave and then indicates a shift of mood as he says in the sestet how maybe this is better. Owen suggests in this poem that funerals back home are a mockery because the person is already dead so they won't...

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