Wilfred Owen Disability

War can cause many feelings and effect soldiers in many ways. Could war be an adventurous experience? Could it make one feel as just a numerical statistic? Wilfred Owen’s poem “Insensibility” depicts war as a horrifying experience that allows no space for meaning of one’s life because it has turned the soldiers into killers who have lost the sense of a human being. Owen does not rebuke the soldiers for their inhuman acts because he feels that it is war that has suppressed their sensibility. The killings and unimaginable acts soldiers are subjected to, have turned them into neither killers who feel sad nor pity whenever they shade blood.
War requires soldiers to be killers. Owen depicts soldiers as people with the rights to kill. They have the right to die or kill at any time as long as they are in the war fields. Soldiers do not value the life of their enemies because as it is the only way to protect themselves. Compassion is useless in the life as they are forced to slash the bones of their rivalries. It is difficult for the soldiers to feel pity for killing because they know that their life is in danger of being killed. Owen states that “Whom no compassion fleers or makes their feet,” (Ward, 20). This shows that soldiers in the war do not care about the
Owen states that soldiers are barely men because they have no one to care for them. Owen continues to argue that no one cares about the soldiers because they are forgotten the moment they die. There is much truth that is hidden that concerns the life of soldiers in the war that the public does not know. The killings and the brutality they go through are not revealed to the people; hence people are not bothered by fighting for the rights and freedom of the soldiers. Owen highlights that men are just gaps for filling which means that the soldiers are obliged to take instructions and act as it is stipulated, “Men, gaps for feeling”