Disabled Case

"Disabled" is a war poem by Wilfred Owen written in the British army in 1915, and it analysis on the experiences of a World War I solider. The poem contrasts the current life of the solider to his past. It is about a disabled veteran who lost his leg and arm in the war and now he confined in a wheelchair at the hospital.

In the first stanza, "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for the dark". The word "He" is the disabled veteran and also he feels sad because the dark creates a reference not only to the end of the day, but also to the end of his life. As he sits on the wheelchair, he listens to the sounds of children playing at the park. "Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him" This sentence he is alluding to the end of their life sounds. In the second stanza, the soldier memorizes about the old days before the war. He conjures up the sights and sounds of lamps budded in the light blue trees and the girls. However, he will never feel how slim girl's waists are, because the girls do not want to touch him, they look at him as a "queer disease".