WILFRED OWEN Disabled

Listen to the poem Write down 3 sentences about first impressions of the poem 1. Do you like it? 2. What affect does it have on you? 3. What is the poet trying to show us/ tell us about?

Time in ‘Disabled’ Using three different colours highlight the different time periods described in ‘Disabled’ 1. His youth, before he joined the army 2. When he was injured 3.The present, disabled in hospital

Contrast between times Find some examples of direct contrasts between the protagonist before and after his accident.

Techniques What techniques does the writer use to show these contrasts? What sort of language does the writer use when describing his life before the accident? What sort of language does he use to describe his life after the accident?

In depth analysis What has the soldier in this poem lost?

Background of Poet One of best known war poets (WW1) Spent time in ‘Craiglockhart Hospital’ after being sent there to recover  Met ‘Siegfried Sassoon’  Shared poetry Returned to war  Killed seven days before armistice

Themes War Pity of War Unseen scars Disability Youth Masculinity Dependency

Images Dark  L1 «waiting for dark»  L2 «ghastly suit of grey»  Shows misery in the present. He likes to invisible in dark.  L17 «He’s lost his colour very far from here»  War drained him of colour Light  L8 «glow-lamps», «light blue trees»  To portray happier times

Images Blood  L20 «Leap of purple spurted from his thigh.»  L21 «One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg»  In sport he wore injuries with pride. Not after war  «spurted from his thigh» symbolises ejaculation. After his accident he would no longer experience that with women. Relationships (with women)  L9 «girls glanced lovelier»  L11 «Now he will never feel again how slim girls’ waists are.”  L13 «All of them touch him like some queer disease»  Change in relationship after accident

Techniques Alliteration  L8 & L9 «glow-lamps» and «girls glanced»  L15 «younger than his youth» Emotive language  «shivered», «saddening», Understatements  L17 «He’s lost his colour far from here» Erotic language  L20 «spurted from his thigh»

Techniques Irony  L21 & L22 « a bloodsmear down his leg/ After the matches, carried shoulder-high»  Now dependent on women to put him to bed. Not him take them to bed Colloquilisms  L27 «giddy jilts»

Techniques Unanswered questions  L45 & L46 «Why don’t they come?» Personification  «town used to swing so gay»  «Til gathering sleep had mothered them from him»