disabled
DISABLED
POET (BACKGROUND)
WILFRED OWEN
ANTI-WAR POET
WROTE THE POEM WHEN JOINING THE WAR WAS CONSIDERED A HEROIC ACT
SOLDIER ENLISTED DURING WW1 AND SUFFERED THE BRUTALITY OF THE WAR
HAD ENLISTED FOR THE WRONG REASONS
MISUNDERSTOOD WAR FOR GAME
SETTING
WHEELED CHAIR, IN AA HOSPITAL
IN A COLD PLACE WITH DARK IMAGES
STRUCTURE
IRREGULAR STANZA PATTERN (REFLECTS THE INNER STATE OF MIND)
IRREGULAR RHYME SCHEME
THEME
DECEIVING PROPAGANDA OF WAR. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MISLED ABOUT WAR.
TITLE
PHYSICAL DISABILITY DUE TO WAR
EMOTIONAL DISABILITY AND DESTRUCTION OF THE INNER SELF
UNIVERSAL TITLE
STANZAS 1 & 2
A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO STANZAS
THE OSCILLATION BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
Introductory stanza introduces reader to the physical disability of the soldier, “legless, sewn short at elbow”
He has lost not only his hands and legs but also the meaning of life.
He is insensitive to the sounds of vigour and youth of the boys playing in the park
Feeling of morose and sadness instead of joy, ‘voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn”.
‘dark’, ‘shivered’, ‘ghastly’ and ‘grey’, reveal the isolation of the soldier
A sharp contrast between the first and second stanzas.
In the first stanza tone and mood is desolate and gloomy. It reveals the present condition of the soldier. A feeling of self-pity.
In the second stanza the soldier reminisces/goes into a flashback about his halcyon days of youth and romance. He was the ‘toast of the town’ among the womenfolk.
‘Town used to swing so gay’ and ‘glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees’, a sense of euphoria and romance is in the air.
These are but distant memories for him
Now he is nothing but a cripple where there is no hope nor glimmer of happiness
He is not only scarred physically but psychologically/mentally/emotionally also.
He remembers how the streets used to light up and how the girls would become more inviting and alluring.
He regrets losing his legs, for he
POET (BACKGROUND)
WILFRED OWEN
ANTI-WAR POET
WROTE THE POEM WHEN JOINING THE WAR WAS CONSIDERED A HEROIC ACT
SOLDIER ENLISTED DURING WW1 AND SUFFERED THE BRUTALITY OF THE WAR
HAD ENLISTED FOR THE WRONG REASONS
MISUNDERSTOOD WAR FOR GAME
SETTING
WHEELED CHAIR, IN AA HOSPITAL
IN A COLD PLACE WITH DARK IMAGES
STRUCTURE
IRREGULAR STANZA PATTERN (REFLECTS THE INNER STATE OF MIND)
IRREGULAR RHYME SCHEME
THEME
DECEIVING PROPAGANDA OF WAR. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MISLED ABOUT WAR.
TITLE
PHYSICAL DISABILITY DUE TO WAR
EMOTIONAL DISABILITY AND DESTRUCTION OF THE INNER SELF
UNIVERSAL TITLE
STANZAS 1 & 2
A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO STANZAS
THE OSCILLATION BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
Introductory stanza introduces reader to the physical disability of the soldier, “legless, sewn short at elbow”
He has lost not only his hands and legs but also the meaning of life.
He is insensitive to the sounds of vigour and youth of the boys playing in the park
Feeling of morose and sadness instead of joy, ‘voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn”.
‘dark’, ‘shivered’, ‘ghastly’ and ‘grey’, reveal the isolation of the soldier
A sharp contrast between the first and second stanzas.
In the first stanza tone and mood is desolate and gloomy. It reveals the present condition of the soldier. A feeling of self-pity.
In the second stanza the soldier reminisces/goes into a flashback about his halcyon days of youth and romance. He was the ‘toast of the town’ among the womenfolk.
‘Town used to swing so gay’ and ‘glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees’, a sense of euphoria and romance is in the air.
These are but distant memories for him
Now he is nothing but a cripple where there is no hope nor glimmer of happiness
He is not only scarred physically but psychologically/mentally/emotionally also.
He remembers how the streets used to light up and how the girls would become more inviting and alluring.
He regrets losing his legs, for he