Out Wilfred Owen Disabled Analysis

In this essay I will explore the common attributes of the poems ‘Out, Out-’ and ‘Disabled’ through the poets’ use language. The poem ‘Out, Out-’ is about a youthful boy who is a child labourer in Vermont. Later in the poem the boy’s hand is cut off by a saw and death quickly follows. The poem ‘Disabled’ is about a veteran who is at an institute. The veteran has decapitated limbs and is waiting for a nurse to help him to bed. Throughout the poem the character is reminiscing on his past before he was sent to France for war.

The war was a tragedy altogether. Both poets understood that. Owen was a soldier in World War 1 and Frost was a citizen in this time period. During the war there was a loss of labourers and this meant that the teenagers of the generation had to begin working. The jobs that were provided were cutting down trees, selling milk, farming ect. Consequences came along with the jobs. During the period of four years the citizens of countries such as England, France and Austria got became accustomed to these consequences. As shown in the poem 'Out, Out-' the line "Were not the one dead, turned to

The poem is based around a veteran who has lost limbs. The soldier is reminiscing on past times of his life. ‘He’ tells the reader that Owen is explaining the life of the soldier in a third person perspective. “He sat in a wheelchair,” the reader can automatically connect the title with the protagonist. Wilfred Owen chose in the next stanza to explore the past life. The stanza is explaining about how the propaganda of war had lead the veteran to go to war instead of finding a wife and having children. The reader then sees that the character is looked at disgustingly instead of heroic. Many soldiers that had suffered from bomb explosions or shooting would understand that they were not look at in the same perspective that men that didn’t go to war