Analysis Of Wilfred Owen s Poem Disabled - 1055 Words

â€Å"Disabled† is in some ways a departure from style for Wilfred Owen, but in other ways it encompasses the theme of his entire collection of works. Owen’s works tend to focus on the destructive impacts that war has on the young men fighting in it, and this theme is no more obvious than in â€Å"Disabled†. Owen’s poems also tend to focus on war related events as they happen, yet â€Å"Disabled† is told through the words of a war veteran who is feeling the aftermath of war first hand. Owen proclaims, in stark detail, that there is no glory worth the destructive effects of war. There were none more qualified to write poetry about the horrors of war than Wilfred Owen. A World War I veteran himself, Owen understood the devastation of war better than†¦show more content†¦A shift from the present to thoughts of the past occurs between the first and second stanzas. In the absence of the children’s voices the man reminisces about days pas t, when the town used to be happy and lit up with lamps. In the days before he lost his leg he used to dance and hold hands with women, but now they only look at him with disgust, as if he has some kind of disease. Only last year an artist wanted to paint his youthful face, but now he is old and his face has lost all color in a far off place. The fourth stanza describes the events of the careless night when the young man enlisted in the military. He drunkenly enlisted to impress a girl named Meg after he had won a big football match, even going so far as to lie about his age. This is where Owen’s criticism of governmental authorities comes into play. While the minute detail of the man lying about his age may seem extraneous to the overall theme of the poem, that detail is Owen’s way of expressing his frustrations with a military system that would not be thorough enough to verify the age of its enlistees. The stanza continues as thoughts of â€Å"jewelled hilts† (32), â€Å"smart salutes† (33), and â€Å"Esprit de corps† (35) invade the young man’s head. Throughout â€Å"Disabled† and many of his other works Owen attempts to dispel the illusions of war glory that plagued the minds of young men at the time. The horrifying details of combat are put on display in Owen’s works as a reality check forShow MoreRelatedComparison Between Ode to a Nightingale and Disabled1191 Words   |  5 PagesIn the poem Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats, the poem’s preoccupations and qualities evoke a Romantic sentimental recollection for the past and refer to it several times. Framed through dynamic poetic techniques and powerful visual imagery, Keats conveys universal concerns and values of immortality of art and the mortality of humans through the compilation of the themes of mortality, nature and transience. â€Å"Disabled† by the modernist poet, Wilfred Owen projects numerous sensual metaphors toRead MoreAn Unknown Girl Analysis1379 Words   |  6 Pages↠ A Passage To Africa. (Narrative Article, Literary  Analysis.) Poetry Analysis: An Unknown Girl- Moniza  Alvi. 28May In the evening bazaar Studded with neon An unknown girl Is hennaing my hand She squeezes a wet brown line Form a nozzle She is icing my hand, Which she steadies with her On her satin peach knee. In the evening bazaar For a few rupees An unknown girl is hennaing my hand As a little air catches My shadow stitched kameez A peacock spreads its lines Across my palm.