Disabled+-+Wilfred+Owen

Disabled - Wilfred Owen's heartbreaking and brutally realistic portrayal of an injured soldier is as pertinent now as it was during World War One.

A fully annotated power point examining the poem - includes a sample essay.



An excellent source of information, full biography and scroll down for the fully annotated poem: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/owen#why

Final note from www.thewonderingminstrels.blogspot.com:

You may have thought Owen's choice of metaphor of soccer for war was because of the similarities between war and sport - the history-repeats-itself 'sport' of war and the war-like strategies in sport - but here's a historical reason: "Dominic Hibberd has noted that this line can be linked to the recuiting poster of 1914, 'Will they never come?' (see 'Some Contemporary Allusions in Poems by Rosenberg, Owen and Sassoon', Notes and Queries August (1979), p.333. Several recruiting posters used the motif of linking sport to the army, and there were numerous recruiting drives at soccer matches."