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Disabled BY WILFRED OWEN (Annotations (('He asked to join', the…
Disabled BY WILFRED OWEN
Annotations
'He asked to join', the soldier is referred to as "he" throughout the whole play which suggests that the soldier is a representative for the thousands of men who were injured and are living in agony.
The use of "ghastly" and "grey" in the first stanza have connotations of ghosts which links with the idea that the soldier has no life left in him. The use of "g-" also replicates the sound of coughing or maybe even the sounds of the soldier's wheelchair.
‘Dark’ is euphemistic language symbolising death which describes the mood and atmosphere of war in the first line of the poem.
"He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for the dark"
Depressing sentence, the soldier has nothing positive to look forward to only the arrival of the dark
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