Disabled by Wilfred Owen

It is my intent to analyze Disabled by Wilfred Owen, the majority of which focused on a soldier's present condition rather than the past; the part that did focus on the past were more pessimistic that this portion. The poem seemed realistic and personal as it portrayed an image of one man's own experience during World War I. Owen wrote about the war because he was a poet and a soldier. I believe that Owen saw the disorder that war created, and I noticed that he used irregularities of rhyme in the seven stanzas to reflect that disorder. Also, the poem of half rhyme gave his poetry a dissonant, disturbing quality that amplified his theme. His usage of language gave the poem an urgency and directness, and all the senses were utilized. The poem expressed the horrors of war and the mental and physical torment the young soldiers sacrificed because of it. In stanza one, the poem presented a clear picture of a young soldier at a park or thinking about being at a park in a wheelchair; he had no legs. Owen allowed the reader to become aware of the man physical surrounding by stating in line one and in line three that "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, /through the park." The reader was able to visualize a man at the park
He didn't know why or what he was fighting for because "Germans he scarcely thought of; all their guilt, / And Austria's, did not move him. Line two, "And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey," one can imagine that the soldier quivered at the thought of wearing that hideous and disgusting gray suit without legs and arms. Throughout the poem, the man was troubled by the town's indifference toward him and the ungratefulness that was shown towards him after he returned home from the war. "The poem was about a young man who went to war at an early age. The wounded soldier couldn't remember why he joined the war, but he was actually enlisted and at that moment he felt powerful because he had "no fears" and "he was drafted out with drums and cheers.