WW1 Poetry - Disabled
- Created by: niamhxoxo
- Created on: 05-05-15 14:50
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- Disabled - Wilfred Owen -- lessened, disturbing
- "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark"
- Isolated state
- Depression
- Reinforce that the soldiers life is interminable to him now
- Effects of war
- Relies on others
- Loss of identity
- "Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn"
- Simile
- Religious imagery
- Echoing ont he battlefield
- "All of them touch him like some queer disease"
- "All" - universal
- Society manifested through war
- Feels emasculated
- Ignored
- Betrayed by women
- "Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry"
- Active verb
- Partly responsible in his own loss
- Youth gone
- "blood-smear" on his leg sustained in a game
- Badge of honour
- Stark contrast to war wounds which are shameful
- Was a football hero
- "carried shoulder high"
- Masculine
- "when he'd drunk a peg, He thought he'd better join"
- Naive and stupid
- "to please his Meg"
- Joined for her
- His justification only illustrates his youthful ignorance and naivety
- "Fear"
- Capitalised
- Personified
- Emphasises its importance
- "Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal"
- Repetition
- Simllar to sports imagery
- Short stanza represents how it was a short lived moment dwarfed in comparison to the rest of his life
- "Thanked him"
- "Thanked"
- Italics
- Questionable - genuine or not
- "Thanked"
- "Now, he will spend a few sick years in institutes"
- Sick imagery
- Realising bleakness of future
- "Now" - absolute
- "women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole"
- Not interested in him
- Owen attacking women
- "whole"
- Identtiy - his body has been fractured - broken
- Contrasts to women's "warm...subtle hands"
- "Why don't they come... Why don't they come?"
- Metaphor
- Death imagery
- Sad & mundane
- Reminder he will always need others to do things for him
- "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark"
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