'Disabled' by wilfred owen

* owen then starts to mention how girls and how he used to go into town basically to meet pretty girls, he writes about how girl's used to look pretty ''girls glanced lovelier'' but now he will never feel '' how slim girl's waists are'' or ''how warm their subtle hands'' he thinks he will never toush girls again ''all of them touch him like some queer disease''

* this shows he feels cast aside, he feels like some disgusting illness that nobody wants to touch.

2.

* Owen takes us through the disabled man's thoughts as he sits in the park, we get a sense of optimism and opportunities lost, his feelings are intensified in this verse.

* As owen takes us through the disabled man's thoughts we see his clear sense of regret and loss of optimism ''younger than his youth'' this shows he regrets going to war but he choes to go to war, he chose his fate before he was a face of youth but now he's disabled.

* owen then describes the soldier as ''he's lost his colour very far from here'' basically saying he has lost all colour from his face. furthermore owen shows the soldier as having no life left.

* he has left his life nehid ''poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran ry'' this shows that not only has he lost his youth, he's lost his whole life.

* owen uses word choice here of 'veins' to shows his loss of life left in his body, he's as good as dead.

3.

* Owen takes us thorugh the man's troubles of the world's indifference towards him and the ungratefullness that is shown towards him after he returns h from the war.

* owen opens us the man's troubles with a contrast of situations - he talks about how blood used to be good if you had a cut on your leg in a football match, it made you seem and look harder and more of a man ''smear down his leg,after matches,carried shoulder-high'' now instead of a blood smear he is left with a life threatening wound.

* to demonstrate the soldier's total physical change owen describes him as once being a ''god in kilts'' but also this shows that the boy enlisted for vantiy.

* ''to please his meg'' is also mentioned as another reason for him enlisting.

* owen here shows bitterness towards women as ''his meg'' has never been seen again.

* we are shown that the boy didnt enlist for himself, he enlisted to impress other people, to impress girls ''to please the giddy jilts''.

* the next line ''smiling they wrote his lie: aged nineteen years'' shows he lied about his ageto join the army, his sadness is heightened as we realise he was underage so he was therefore still very young.

* we see society's eagerness to send him to war ''drafted him out with drums and cheers'' this is the same society that appears reluctant to embrace him with the same eagerness on his return.

* he describes how only some cheered him home, but not as many as would cheer a goal that he scores in a football game ''some cheered him home,but not as crowds cheer goal''.

* he see that he feels ungratefullness from the people that he helped to prtoect '' only a solemn man who brought him fruti thanked him and then enquired about his soul''

* language and style owens uses shows the soldiers deeply sadened soul.

4.

* owen finishes poem in picture od despair, how he will have to live now because of war.

* picture of despair conveyed through the soldiers total passivity, his future will be to ''do what the rules consider wise''.

* he is expected to ''soend a few years in institutes'' and take ''whatever pity they may dole''

* showing the sadness of a once healthy athlete now reduced to state of helplessness and dependency on others.

* effects of how he will now have to live portrayed through ''tonight he noticed how the womens' eyes passed from him to the strong men that were whole''

* showing the soldiers total lack of confidence now which is in stark contrast to before when he used to go out in town and impress all the ladies.

* his feelings of ingratitude are conveyed us through the last few lines in ''put him into bed'' the word choice of ''put'' suggest a duty rather thand a favour and it requires effort and affection form people.

* Also the ohrase ''why dont they come'' repeated to us, repitition of pharse conveys the depression.

* soldier remains resevered and bitter and faintly resigned to his dreary future.

CONClusion.

* in this poem 'disabled' by wilfred owen we are shown the devastiong effects of the war. owen's purpose in this poem became to illustrate the intense suffering of the war which has ruine people's lives. purpose of disabled is alrgely conveyed through owens use of styel and technique. the effects that people have to live with for the rest of their lives : whether that be mental or physical. owen wants us to connect with the suffering of this man, he wants us to pity him and feel an almost emotional connection to him.

* his use of style and techniques emphasise the absolute regret and sadness of the soldier through word choice, imagery and sentence.

* his technique is very effective as he shows us a picture of what the man is reduced to now and then a picture of what he was like before he became a soldier in the war. this stark contrast throughout the poem makes us the reader mor emotionally connected which is what owne wants form us.