Compare and Contrast “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “Out, Out-”by Robert Frost. in What Ways Do They Explore the Theme of Pain and Suffering?

These two poems are written by poets with completely different social statuses. This differing factor leads to two completely different perspectives on the

In both poems the men had respectable lives. Generally, they were pleased and had fun with what they were doing.

The characters’ lost opportunities are shown in both poems, which makes their situation more of an injustice. It is discussed more in Disabled with flashes to past and present, generally alternating in a regular pattern. By juxtaposing the past and the present, he emphasises both of them. This makes the past seem more perfect and the present seem even worse, thus making the reader sympathise with the character more. For example, in the third stanza he says that there was an artist silly for his face and then, in the same stanza, he says that he has now lost his colour. This contrasts how handsome he was to now when he no longer fits the ideals of beauty, as both of the phrases are in the same syndetic field they are compared to each other. Colour is a metaphor for life/youth, as it makes the reader imagine rosy-cheeked children. This shows that he has lost his youth much like everything else was taken away from him by the war. This blood imagery links to death in both not only showing physical loss but loss of life (or life as he knew it in Disabled) much like everything else was taken away from him by the war. This is similar to how in Out, Out-; Frost describes the boy trying to keep his life from spilling. He uses life as a metaphor for the blood.

This image is definitely not the glamorous picture of glory that, say army recruitment presents; worse, the soldiers are doing worse than civilians. As soon as the next stanza “[m]en marched asleep. Many had lost their boots” (5). They have lost their usual awareness and move mechanically; that doesn’t sound appealing! It gets worse: “[b]ut limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind” (6). So now they’re limping, apparently wounded, covered in blood, and can’t even see? It worsens further, “[d]runk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots/ Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind” (7-8). The soldiers are so exhausted it incapacitates them, and they can no longer hear the bullets being fired. This poem sounds like a distorted nightmare, except the speaker is living it, and even reliving the torment of the soldier’s death while he is unconscious. Owen’s wording expresses that the soldiers are merely men, deteriorating and inconceivably overwhelmed the opposite of positive war poetry containing glory and honor.

what the nature of war and creating a sense of 'them' and 'us' this is

Throughout the poem there are many examples of contrast or juxtaposition in a majority of the stanzas. In the first stanza the veteran is sitting all alone in his wheelchair with his legs amputated. Owen describes the boys playing in the park. These boys are a direct juxtaposition to the veteran because they are able to run

“Disabled" is a poem written in the 1910s by Wilfred Owen, the poem describes the experience of a young soldier who was fighting in World War I. After the war he lost his limbs as it was very unfortunate for him. As the poem goes on, he was then laughed and discriminated about his unfortunate loss. He then feels regretful of the reason why he went to fight for his country. The adjective “Disabled “is associated with negative connotations. The poem is about the negative feelings of an ex-soldier who lost had an unfortunate loss of limbs. As this is similar to the poem ‘Out, Out ‘.

focuses of second half of the poem is concentrated on accident that takes place in which a boy

Explore the Use of Contrast in Wilfred Owen’s ‘Disabled’ and Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’

"Out, Out," by Robert Frost is a gruesomely graphic and emotional poem about the tragic end of a young boy's life. It is a powerful expression about the fragility of life and the fact that death can come at any time. Death is always devastating, but it is even more so when the victim is just a young boy. The fact that the boy's death came right before he could " Call it a day" (750) leads one to think the tragedy might have been avoided and there by forces the reader to think, "What if." This poem brings the question of mortality to the reader's attention and shows that death has no age limit.

Owen and Frost convey extreme experiences and feelings very powerfully and evoke it in a way for us the reader to imagine clearly. In Disabled, Owen conveys the image of death very vividly with immense use of imagery writing 'He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,' this darkness is referring to the sense that the soldier's life is interminable to him now. Owen is trying to tell us that this soldier's life has been cut short by the war and that he cannot be the same individual he was perhaps five to ten years earlier. Another example of strong imagery in Disabled which conveys extreme experiences and feelings is the good use of visual imagery where he writes 'Legless, sewn short at the elbow.' This powerful phrase gives us the reader an image of the soldier seated in a wheelchair with no legs as well as part of his arm 'deattached', this image being emphasised by the words 'Legless' and 'sewn short'.

The authors(Robert Frost and Wilfred Owen) of ‘Out, Out-’ and ‘Disabled’ use imagery to show that a nonideal world is more prominent than an ideal one. 'Disabled' shows how the war has changed him to look non-ideal this is evident in the text when Owen describes the victim's disabilities ‘Legless, sewn short at elbow.’This quote is very effective in showing how the war victim after his battle body has become disabled.The author of ‘Out, Out-’ also shows that the boys looks are not to his ideal; ‘Don’t let him cut my hand off.' Frost uses this quote to illustrate how much the boy wanted to keep his hand that no matter what happens, even if he has an arm that is hanging off that was better than having no hand at all. The authors Frost and Owen, also show that the victims had a feeling of anguish, that why did this have to happen to them when they were only trying to do something good.They both use imagery to express this, the War victims feelings are shown in this quote ’And put him to bed? Why don't they come?.' This statement shows his feeling of anguish and regret because he had done so much for them and they won’t help him and how he is longing for companionship after the war. Owen explains this by showing the reader that the soldier is not attracted to his body and woman aren't either because his body is non-ideal,’as he noticed how the women's eye's passed from him to the strong men that were whole.’It Makes the reader sympathise on a personal level with the victim because he didn't deserve this after all that he had done.In

An even greater injustice is that, in both poems, we see that this was not just one occurrence, but a common event and no one fights against it. “Were not the one dead turned to their affairs.” this shows that people, including society, accepted death in child labour as a common occurrence. The lack of tone, and an absence of emotion shows how people accepted it, and furthermore moved on almost instantly without thinking or grieving over the death of this child. Similarly, in ‘Disabled’, we see that the faith in the government, and the exploitation of the people by the government, has resulted in the boy becoming disabled. Enjambment at the end of the line, “since they Were” shows how quickly the family and society move on, they will carry on like the line carries on into the next. We see that this was a common occurrence at the time of war because Wilfred Owen uses universal appeal throughout the poem, using this one boy to represent many.

In the poems “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “The Bright Lights of Sarajevo” by Tony Harrison, both poems present the realities of war. However, both differ in terms of setting and contrast that help depict the similarities of their theme. Disabled takes place within World War I as Owen vividly describes the subject’s amputation. The sounds of the children playing hysterically causes him to reflect back to when he once was whole. However, within the Bright Lights of Sarajevo although Harrison discusses the consequences of partaking in war within the town, he illustrates the way in which life goes on regardless the horrific impact which has been left behind. Through use of setting and contrast, both poets contribute in presenting the theme

In the poem ‘Disabled’, poet Wilfred Owen portrays the horrors of war and the brutal aftermath by using powerful imagery, dramatic contrasts of pace and time, overwhelming irony and by creating a strong sense of sympathy for the soldier of this poem. The contrasts between health and illness, life and death feature greatly in the poem; this gives the reader a ‘before and after’ picture of the soldier’s (subject’s) life.