The show ‘idea of inverting heaven the show of death’ very from the inset the attitude of the poem is revealed to show death in the war to be quiet brutal. ‘…pushed them selves to be as plugs’ metaphorically which can be viewed as a sink in which the ‘plugs’ the actual soldiers are seen to be not valued, common and holding a single purpose which is to fight the war this is further supported ‘where they writhed and shrived, killed’ shows the sheer worthlessness (‘they’) and the emotional attachment. Moreover the path of the soldiers was not one of glory but one of blood ‘slimy paths been trailed and scraped’. Owens sheer attitude towards war is more vivid and dominant as the poem progresses. The attitude of disgust worthlessness and being in superior is not more prevalent than the lines ‘more abundant spawns, ramped on the rest and ate then and were eaten’ which refers to the Germans which were the opposition and the sheer number and conditioned nature.
Disabled's next stanza continues in the same tempo as its first, drifting into narrative form with 'About this time' and 'There was' which create a distance between the reader and the disabled man, as well as distancing him from his past and his friends. This is added to by use of adverbial phrases such as 'one time', producing contrasts between past and present, making the boy yearn for all his past and the reader yearn for the boy. The readers are forced to feel sympathy for this boy as he recollects his past. ' a blood smear down his leg, in contrast to ‘After the matches, carried shoulder-high' Again Owen uses irony effectively here. We are already aware that the soldier has lost an arm and his legs, yet here we are told that before the War he felt proud to have an injury, and to be carried shoulder-high (for reasons of celebration as opposed to helplessness). The concept of reversal is again used: sporting hero to cripple, handsome to 'queer disease', colour to dark, warmth to cold. The imagery is used by Owen ('like a queer disease' l and the leap of purple'. This adds power to his present physical repulsiveness and emphasising the speed at which his youth plus his beauty was drained out of him. This young man obviously was very handsome when he was 'whole' and the comparisons to his current state make the reader sympathise with him even more which intern enforces Owens attitude to war being regret .
Disabled's final stanza This is where the reader finally realises that the boy is not waiting for the end of the day, but the end of his life, he has nothing to live for now. He can only envy other men as he waits for 'dark' for them to 'come'.
The show ‘idea of inverting death’ very from the inset the attitude of the poem is revealed to show death in the war to be quiet brutal. ‘…pushed them selves to be as plugs’ metaphorically which can be viewed as a sink in which the ‘plugs’ the actual soldiers are seen to be not valued, common and holding a single purpose which is to fight the war, which devour the body which lay in a battle field
Wilfred Owens’s ‘the show’ portrays human value and cost of war which attacks and devours the reader in contrast to disabled where which holds a more reserved approach. However with similar attitudes which are of hatred and disgust towards war where regret prevails over patrocity being the underline attitude. Further more they contrast on there direct a indirect portrayal of these attitudes.
