Disabled

Disabled Disabled by Wilfred Owen Is a poem about a man who joins the war thinking how great it would be, but then realising how terrible it was leaving him disabled loosing his legs. he has been denied all the things that a boy at his age should be enjoying. The first stanza is introduces us to a man who is in a wheelchair the image of coldness is portrayed and the use of alliteration to emphasis the sadness. The first stanza is contrast of him being in the wheelchair looking at boys playing with pleasure “voices of play and pleasure”. The second stanza the poet talks about how great life used to be before he went to war and lost he’s legs, when he would go out and dance with women and have great time “in old times, before he threw away his legs”. The contrast of mood and tone is used in the first and second stanza, 
which creates a change of mood. In the first stanza words like 
"ghastly" and phrases like, "saddening like a hymn", are used by Owen 
to create a dull and depressing mood. Which represents the mans 
present life in which he is stuck in. Then in the second stanza words 
like "gay" are used to create a mood that is very happy and joyful. 
Which represented the mans past life, before the injury. The third stanza talks about how a girl who is an artist, who was in love with him. "For it was younger than his youth" is just another way of saying that he had a baby face. He adds "last year” as a way of telling the reader that he does not look like that anymore. His face has changed a lot during the war. His face has lost its boyhood charm, and it has been replaced by a face that is hard and worn by the ravages of war. He describes himself as being old even though the oldest that he is likely to be is twenty-two. He lost his color, most likely means that he lost a lot of blood. He was caught in enemy fire, which is how he lost his limbs. He bled and bled until there was no more blood left. His injuries caused him to grow up very quickly; the reality of warfare sunk in, and it was no longer something that was considered to be honorable, glorious, nor fun. Stanza four is about how at one time, the sign of blood on one's body was considered a good, honorable thing “he liked a blood smear down his leg…carried shoulder high”. The narrator is remembering about when and why he originally enlisted. It was after a football game and a drink of alcohol that he decided to join. When he says "He wonders why" he is trying to make sense of his decision; did he join because he genuinely wanted to, or was it because he was under the influence of alcohol, or was it just because of the girls. He didn't have to prove his worth to the recruitment officers; they just signed him up without question. They didn't even question that he was nineteen years old, which he was not. The fact that he was playing on a football team and in immature way he describes his enlistment is proof that he is younger than nineteen. He did not know anything about the politics of the war. He only thought of how the uniform would make him look, and how people would treat him once he put it on. The fifth stanza is about how no one was cheering for achievements just for the men who had lost their lives or have been injured Except one man.The sixth stanza is about how the war has affected him mentally and how women will now ignore him. he uses a rhetorical question at the end to show his pain he feels inside. In Owen’s poems, his message and general perspective to the reader is that war isn’t right, and needs to be stopped. Owen proves that war is terrible through the vast variety of ways he describes the wars. Owen’s use of figurative language and tonality enhances his point of view on the atrocities of war. Owen’s message to the reader is also meaningful, considering his poems were recounts of his experiences, and that he also died at war. Key techniques to directly involve us in Owen’s recounts include the narration throughout the poem, the imagery, the structure of his poems and the representation of war through many different metaphors and similes.