Disabled by Wilfred Owen and Out, Out by Robert Frost

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Disabled. Disabled is a word commonly defined as being physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated (dictionary.com). There's a stigma over the word disabled with its negative connotation. Nancy Mairs, author of “I Am a Cripple, dislikes this word because she thinks that the English language incorporates too many euphemism in our speech. Mairs wants people to use more straightforward language, even if it might be offensive to others. In “ I Am a Cripple”, Mairs eloprates on how she became disabled from the disease multiple sclerosis or (M.S). M.S., a disease that attacks the central nervous system and often disables or cripples the person who has this disease. To describe her first symptoms of M.S.(infinitive phrase) Mairs flashbacks to when she was in college. Also how some days she wishes she was not disabled. Allusions in Nancy Mairs’s “I Am a Cripple” provide a deeper understanding of her complex feelings of having M.S.

In ‘Disabled’, Wilfred Owen a war veteran tells the story of a young soldier who returns from war and realizes how dissimilar his old life is to his new one where he is disabled both mentally and physically despite the fact that his mind may seem unaffected by past traumas the reader will begin to understand the subtle hurts that have slowly damaged him. In contrast, the story of ‘Out, out-‘ is of a boy completing his everyday chores, sawing wood, in the backdrop of the Vermont mountains. He accidentally cuts his hand off and he succumbs to death despite a doctor’s aid.

The poem “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen is about a young soldier who has lost his legs during the First World War. Owen wrote the poem whilst he was being treated for shell shock at the Craiglockhart War Hospital. It is very likely that he would have seen lots of soldiers pass through his ward with severe injuries such as missing limbs.

The theme of loss is portrayed similarly in the two poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Out, out-’. Both of these poems are about the protagonist dealing with physical loss as they both experience an accident. Both Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost manage to mesmerize their audience’s attention, and also sympathize for the protagonists’ misfortune. They do this by the use of many literary techniques which are obvious at times, but some are very subtle, such as similes, metaphors, personification, and contrasts.

This essay highlights and discusses models of disability reflected in two separate articles (Appendices A and B). I will identify the models of disability they represent. Both have been recently featured in the Guardian newspaper and are stories on disabled people.

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

Frost has a compelling way of writing the poem, in the beginnings of the poem there is a lot of metaphors and descriptions of the setting and the saw and the boy. Once the boy is injured

The imagery shows that since the character is young and responsible, he works to support him and his family. We are first introduced to the image of the young boy working as a young adult. Then, in the first 9 lines, the author describes the setting of the poem using imagery such as, “sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it,” “Five mountain ranges one behind the other,” “under the sunset far into

of this literary work. Frost uses the depiction of innocence through a young boy who suffers a

Robert Frost also shows his touch of imagery in the poem, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”.

Frost's accentuation on the boy's lack of involvement and blamelessness in this circumstance is especially noteworthy with regards to the day and age. Subsequent to moving to England with his family, Frost was compelled to come back to America as a result of the onset of World War I in 1915, an occasion that would devastate the lives of numerous pure young men. In view of that, this poem can be perused as an investigation of the world occasions that constrained young men to abandon their childhoods and at last be decimated by conditions outside their ability to control. Most adolescents and young people, both young men and young ladies, left primary schools where they got the

Explore the similarities and differences between Disabled and ‘Out, Out - ' in terms of how Owen and Frost present attitudes to injury and death. What techniques do these poets use to create a sense of "before and after" a personal tragedy? Refer frequently to textual details.

‘In the poem “Out, Out-,” the primary character is exploited by his family, and in ‘Disabled’, the war veteran is exploited by the government. A good example of how the government takes advantage in ‘Disabled’, is “Smiling they wrote his lie,” in this quote recruitment officers, working for the government, recruit the boy, knowing he is under age. The word ‘smiling’ shows that they were happy to recruit him, this is injustice as they did not take the required legal action to stop him, but happily allowed it. This shows injustice because the government failed to tell the people the truth about war. He thinks war is fun because the government has not told him the truth, here the government is culpable. Because Wilfred Owen was writing at the

In conclusion, Robert Frost uses the form of a sonnet to express his unique visuals of a lady who just lives life for what it has to offer day by day to her best advantages. Using visual and aural imagery to make us understand just how great life can