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Technique: simile”queer disease” The effect: he bitterly remembers that he will not get to experience a relationship with a woman now because they look at him as if he has a “queer disease” they ignore and avoid to touch him. Therefore the soldier feels, emasculated,ifnored.

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Technique: simile”queer disease” The effect: he bitterly remembers that he will not get to experience a relationship with a woman now because they look at him as if he has a “queer disease” they ignore and avoid to touch him. Therefore the soldier feels, emasculated,ifnored.

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The poet uses alliteration. This is examplified when "ghastly suit of grey". The poet uses alliteration to focus on the fact that the veteran is wearing an extremely bad suit that is even "grey" that represents negative feelings and also to create rhythm and mood. The government and the people don't take care of their war veteran.

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The persona is feeling lonely and these lines support this. He is desperate at the same time he is waiting for everything will be over.

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Irony is also used. The lines ‘One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg, after the matches, carried shoulder high’ suggest an ironical meaning, because at first many men saw war as a game to be won with honour and glory, but it ended in bloodshed and slaughter. The pride of the persona caused him the exact thing he had been proud of, and this makes the reader feel how 

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Irony is also used. The lines ‘One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg, after the matches, carried shoulder high’ suggest an ironical meaning, because at first many men saw war as a game to be won with honour and glory, but it ended in bloodshed and slaughter. The pride of the persona caused him the exact thing he had been proud of, and this makes the reader feel how 

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“...of purple spurted..”:it’s a color imagery and it shows uncontrollable loss of blood,that probably resulted in his limbs being amputated.

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Technique:descriptive”glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees” The effect: emphases the fact that he wasnt alone and desperate,everything was beatiful before he sacrifice himself. The soldier reminisces about the old days before the war. He conjures up sight and sounds of the lamps and dancing girls before

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Technique:descriptive”glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees” The effect: emphases the fact that he wasnt alone and desperate,everything was beatiful before he sacrifice himself. The soldier reminisces about the old days before the war. He conjures up sight and sounds of the lamps and dancing girls before

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there is a use of repetition in the last two lines of the poem and the words repeated are " why dont they come". By writing that twice the poet shows us that the persona is troubled by loneliness and his inability to perform basic functions

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The poet uses personification. It is examplified as "do what things the rules consider wise,". Rules can't consider, it is a human activity. The poet personifies to emphasize on the harsh fact that the rules government puts determine the life of the veterans. The government puts veterans in institutes where they will spend "a few sick years" without even taking their feelings about staying there into consideration.

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Technique:informative”town used to swing so gay” The effect: gives info about how happy the town was and how good the old times were(before the war)

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We can see the persona likes attention and according to that he wants everyone see him like an honorable man which is a war vete

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One of the techniques used in this poem  is euphemism. In the first line, the words ‘waiting for dark’ suggests a very negative meaning; it might be connoting to the ending of something or someone, such as ‘death’. This underscores the persona’s misery and sadness.

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One of the techniques used in this poem  is euphemism. In the first line, the words ‘waiting for dark’ suggests a very negative meaning; it might be connoting to the ending of something or someone, such as ‘death’. This underscores the persona’s misery and sadness.

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Note that there is no particular name,and that reference to he might be able to any other soldier who has fought in the war.

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Technique:simile”saddenning like a hymn” The effect:conveys the reader that even the cheerful voices of the children dont bring his mood up 

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Technique:simile”saddenning like a hymn” The effect:conveys the reader that even the cheerful voices of the children dont bring his mood up 

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In line 19, the poet uses a metaphor ‘half his lifetime lapsed in hot race’ the poet refers to war by saying hot race. How the hot race is deadly and dangerous. By using that metaphor, the writer highlights the danger and the horror of the war.

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in stanza 3 line 7 the poet says "and leap of purple spurted from his thigh", that is a use of descriptive language and probably refers to the sickness called "gangrene"

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The writer uses literary divices such as rhetorical questions. For example the repetetive use of *why dont they come? * signifies his changing thought process how lonely the veteran is.

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In line 1, the poet used metaphor by saying “waiting for dark” and by doing that, the poet referred to the end of the life. Not having life energy and goal makes him aimless and it causes him to die. Also the dark likened the equality, in dark people couldn’t see and understand what is happening around them as expected they can’t understand the differences Of matters which causes everyone to be equal.

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“Waiting for dark”:Apart from the idea that a disabled person,being unable to move around all day and spending his time waiting for the day to end is a bad thing.Also the word “dark” represents death.

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Technique: imagery
The poet is uses our sense of hearing as an example of imagery. In these lines we can see the feelings about being sad and lonely.
Example: voice of boys, like a hymn, voice of play

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he is uses a metaphor in the 3rd stanza in the 4th line by sayin' " he's lost his color". By that, he means that he lost his young and cheerful spirit and by doing that he gives the reader a better insight about the persona's mental condition

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The poet uses repitition technique to reflect his strong sense of loss. In the first stanza there is a repitition of the word ‘voices’ since he hears the voices coming from outside and it reminds him of his old, healthier self. He is so traumatized because of the accident and the idea of not being able to join the people who is outside, having fun is the reason why the voices stuck in his mind. His obsession to his younger times because of his loss and his suffer due to the voices being repeated in his mind is reflected with an effective repitition.

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In line 1, the poet used euphamism by saying “waiting for dark” and by doing that, the poet underlined the hopelessness of the persona by referring to death. Also in line 17 the poet uses a symbol as he says “he lost his color” and he emphasizes that the persona lost his joy of life in the war as Wilfred Owen uses “color” as a symbol which is symbolizing the joy of life of the persona. And in line 6 the poet used the metaphor “ till gathering sleep had mothered them from him” in order to convey pity for the soldier who is disabled and shows the persona to be a monster. This metaphor also refers to the phsical and mental pain of the persona.

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Identify the literary devices, provide textual evidence and write the effect about the poem Disabled.