Disabled (poem)

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Disabled

"Disabled" is a war poem by Wilfred Owen written in 1917. It expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenaged soldier in World War I who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined, utterly helpless, to a wheelchair. The subject contrasts the living death he is now facing with the youthful pleasures he had enjoyed "before he threw away his knees"; he goes on to recall the impetuous and frivolous circumstances in which he had joined up to fight in the war. He also notes how the crowds that greeted his return were smaller and less enthusiastic than those who cheered his departure, and how women no longer look at him but at "the strong men who were whole".

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Analysis of "Disabled" by Wilfred Owen

Poems by Wilfred Owen

"1914"
"A New Heaven"
"A Terre"
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
"Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"
"Arms and the Boy"
"As Bronze may be much Beautified"
"Asleep"
"At a Calvary near the Ancre"
"Beauty"
"But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars"
"Conscious"
"Cramped in that Funnelled Hole"
"Disabled"
"Dulce et Decorum est"
"Elegy in April and September"
"Exposure"
"Futility"
"Greater Love"
"Happiness"
"Has Your Soul Sipped?"
"Hospital Barge"
"I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson"
"Insensibility"
"Inspection"
"Le Christianisme"
"Mental Cases"
"Miners"
"Music"
"S. I. W."
"Schoolmistress"
"Six O'Clock in Princes Street"
"Smile, Smile, Smile"
"Soldier's Dream"
"Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action"
"Spells and Incantations"
"Spring Offensive"
"Strange Meeting"
"The Calls"
"The Chances"
"The Dead-Beat"
"The End"
"The Kind Ghosts"
"The Last Laugh"
"The Letter"
"The Next War"
"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
"The Roads Also"
"The Send-off"
"The Sentry"
"The Show"
"The Wrestlers"
"Training"
"Uriconium An Ode"
"Wild With All Regrets"
"With an Identity Disc"

Disabled (poem)

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