Refugee Blues

‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘Disabled’ are two poems that have truly given me an image of the horrors of the World wars. While both the poem has many differences but they do have a few similarities. In the piece of writing, I would be talking about first, the differences and the structure of the poem in terms of analysis and then I would move forward into talking about the real differences and similarities, in other terms I would be comparing them.

‘Refugee Blues’ is structured very differently to the poem ‘Disabled’, while 'Refugee Blues ' has three-line in each stanza and 'Disabled ' has five-line in each stanza, both poems get different effects because of this stanza structure. While the ‘Refugee Blues’ makes it more calming, the ‘Disabled’

‘Disabled’ is a poem by Wilfred Owen, written about World War I and its horror. The poem starts with an unknown narrator, who describes himself with the line “And shivered in his ghastly suit of gray,”. The word “gray” might emphasize the theme isolation. The “suit” symbolize the loneliness that is wrapping itself around the narrator, which is scary for the narrator to get through. Also, we shouldn’t forget the use of alliteration in the words “ghastly” and “gray” and “shivered” and “suit”, to show emphasize the feelings of the narrator further. The poem moves ahead and talks about the war soldier and the things they have lost, especially the time that they have lost, which might never be given back to them. Line 19 in stanza 3 says “And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race,” this line is demonstrating the loss of time the soldiers have to go through. They might have gone to war as teenagers, but they had come as men, who had seen too much pain and suffrage, that they shouldn 't deserve to be shown to. The poem, to help us relate, gives us an example of a person who had joined the army to impress his lover. In line 37 stanza 6, “Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal”, there is an alliteration using work “cheered”, “crowds” and “cheer” to convey the things that are to be noticed and thought about. The line explores how the soldiers who came back from the war were not appreciated or praised even though they won, unlike how people cheered when the narrator

The main theme, which is in both ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘Disabled’, is Isolation and loneliness. In this big world with so many people around us, it is easy to feel lonely. Lonely in terms of these poems means not having anyone who truly cares about your good being, who talks to because of general interest instead of pity, who would always be there for you cause they care and not just because you need someone. Both the narrators in the poems, ‘Refugee Blues’ by W.H. Auden and ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen, are facing the dilemma of isolation. It feels as though the war not only divides the world, it also isolates us all from people we care about, as we either lose them to death or saving the world. Refugee Blues was written near early 1940s during the beginning of World War II, while Disabled was written in the 1910s during the World War I. Even Though the poems have a gap of 30 years in between them, they do not fail to show the great losses and pain of the people suffering from the wars. Both poems have a great use of Imagery, to help us readers imagine and feel the emotions they have running through them. Another way, both poems emphasized their points were using the devices alliteration and repetition, now these two devices were used tons of times during the two poems, and they both did a very good job in getting the essential feelings and emotions spread across to the readers. Although, the structures of the poems are very different, they both are very well written and not