Summary And Diction Of Disabled By Wilfred Owen

Disabled by Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen adopts techniques such as dynamic diction, graphic imagery and sentence structure to convey his opinions. He outlines how a single event can end, or change the childhood of a young man prematurely, and he explores what effect it had on his life. The poem creates a sense of pity within the readers and furthermore, Owen stimulates a sense of outrage that men are permitted to join the army below the allowed age. In addition he uses graphic descriptions and effective diction as a means to stimulate a sense of horror within the reader.

In the poem Disabled, Wilfred Owen shows the sorrowful life of a disabled soldier. He uses a distinct simile in this poem, to portray soldier’s early and late life. The simile is referring to the voices of the boys while they were playing. It reminded him of a pleasant, rather than enforced, leisure. Whatsoever, as they day was progressing their voices “rang saddening like a hymn”. Even though evening hymns were traditionally quiet and reflective, it was presented as melancholic. Through the use of the emotive language, he displays a clear and horrifying contrast between soldiers present and past.

Throughout the opening sentence: "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark" Wilfred Owen promptly gives us glances at the soldier’s bitter present, and his abnormal desire to wait for the day to end. Moreover, this is the moment where he shows the readers how the soldier wears dreary depressive colors to