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Wilfred Owen, the author of ‘Disabled’ presents the handicapped soldier as shadow of what he was
before he enlisted in the army
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He used alliteration here to grab the reader’s attention
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The poet builds upon this colourless attribute by saying
that the soldier ‘lost his colour very far from here, Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry’
the word ‘colour’ is personified in this quote, and it was being ‘poured’ down shell-holes
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The word ‘poured’ is an
active verb, and it makes his decision of joining the war seem wasteful, and that his younger self was
naïve for enlisting
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Owen’s message here is that
the young boy shouldn’t have been allowed to chose to waste his life in this way, and that there
should have been some protection against naïve boys like him putting his life in danger like this, and
becoming just a shadow of what he was
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When the
soldier is recollecting on why he decided to join, not only are the reasons he gives trivial, but there is
a childish rhyme scheme accompanying it, ‘leg … peg’, ‘guilt … hilts’
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He also talked about what he thought would
experience or have in the war, like ‘jewelled hilts’ or ‘care of arms’, which greatly illustrates his
mistaken belief of what the war would be like
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This all demonstrates that the soldier did not know what he was signing up for,
and that he too innocent and naïve to deserve a lifelong, crippling injury
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Owen, I believe, wanted to demonstrate how
the governments carelessness with its push of a pro-war agenda could lead to the ruining of
innocent people’s lives
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In the very first line, Owen says ‘He sat in a wheeled chair’
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In the very last lines, Owen links back to this, and says ‘Why don’t they come and
put him to bed’
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But in addition, it says how he was forgotten about outside, which says how his
friends and family had left him due to his injury
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In conclusion, in ‘Disabled’ Wilfred Owen uses diverse methods such as metaphors and historical
references to tell the reader that the countless soldiers conscripted for WW1 were too innocent to deserve
having half their lifetime taken away from them, and that there was a lack of any empathy for the casualties
of war, he was forgotten about and left outside

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