Disabled - Wilfred Owen

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  • Disabled - Wilfred Owen
    • sample questions
      • How successfully does the writer compare the ideas of sport and war in 'Disabled'?
        • effects of war
        • past and present attidudes
        • the writer's use of imagery and colour
        • use of contrast
        • the writers use of words, phrases and techniques
      • How does the writer convey the relationship between the past and present?
      • How does the poet use 'Disabled' to explore different attitudes towards war?
      • How does the poet create pathos towards the subject?
      • How does the poet create a sense of loss?
    • present events
      • "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, / And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, / Legless, sewn short at elbow.
      • "Now he will never..."
      • "Now, he is old..."
      • "He wonders why."
      • "How, he will spend a few sick years..."
    • past events
      • "About this time Town used to swing so gay..."
      • "There was an artist silly for his face...last year."
      • "One time he liked..."
      • "After the matches..."
      • "Someone had said he'd..."
      • "Austria's did not move him..."
    • sport
      • "Voices of boys...Voices of play"
        • youth and sport
        • celebrated - hero
        • collaborative, team
        • male (boys playing)
      • "After the matches, carried shoulder-high. / It was after football,"
        • recruiting  officers went to football matches to get people to join into the war
          • war
            • "He thought he'd better join...to please his Meg;"
              • go to war to please women
            • "He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;"
              • joining war
            • "Germans he scarcely thought of..."
        • cheering - crowds sending him off
        • context of pals brigade
          • however, he is now alone
      • "cheer Goal."
    • war
      • "He thought he'd better join...to please his Meg;"
        • go to war to please women
      • "He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;"
        • joining war
      • "Germans he scarcely thought of..."
    • annotations
      • "grey" "light-blue" "He's lost his colour" "purple"
        • colour
      • "Legless, sewn short at elbow."
        • lost legs and arms
      • "Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, / Voices of play and pleasure after day,"
        • sounds
      • "And shivered is his ghastly suit of grey,"
        • opening = ignorance and criticism of recruiting and public
      • "before he threw away his knees."
        • careless - he has done it to himself - seems like a choice - he has messed up
      • "Now, he is old;"
        • as though he has become old - aged a lot
      • "very far from here,"
        • back in France
      • "Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry
        • his own responsibility, own carelessness
      • "Now, he will spend a few sick years in Institutes..."
        • pathos - he is alone
      • "Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal."
        • break in line - highlights contrast
  • WILFRED OWEN: 18th March 1893 - 4th November 1918 (died in France), English poet and solider, lived in Shropshire, used sound a lot in poems, anger about war, increasingly critical bond

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