Introduction
Wilfred Owen is one of the most well known poets of the First World War; he was born in England in 1893 and joined the military when he was 22 years old. He wanted to be a poet since a very young age and wrote his earlier poems when he was around 17 years old. In 1915, during the First World War, he enlisted in the British army and his first active service was at Serre and St.Quentin in 1917. He continued writing during his time as a soldier but was in active duty only for a few months since in April he suffered for shell shock and he spent a few months in Craiglockhart War Hospital recovering. It was during this period that he wrote his most famous works that talk about the hardships of war. He rejoined the army after his release …show more content…
Owen wrote this poem in 1917 and it describes the death of a soldier due to exhaustion. But the poem is interesting for my investigation since it says the dead soldiers wife would probably "get her fun/ In some new home, improved materially." (The Dead-beat, line12-13, Appendix 12). This portrays the women as uncaring since she wouldn't care her husband is dead and would soon move on to better things. But the poem that most clearly shows Owen's resentment towards women is one of his latest ones, "Disabled". This poem describes a war veteran who has lost both legs and an arm who is reflecting about what he thought war was going to be and what it actually turned out to be. The man remembers how the reason he first enlisted was to please his girlfriend, "That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg,/ Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts/ He asked to join." (Disabled, lines 26-28, Appendix 15). So the reason he joined the army was to make the girls happy, he then thinks of everything he expected and was told about war and realizes how it was all a lie and that while he joined the army to please the girls now they won't even look at him. "All of them touch him like some queer disease." (Disabled, line 13, Appendix 15). In this poem the women are portrayed as hypocrites since while they were the ones who encouraged men to join the army they now won't even take care of the wounded
Wilfred Owen is one of the most well known poets of the First World War; he was born in England in 1893 and joined the military when he was 22 years old. He wanted to be a poet since a very young age and wrote his earlier poems when he was around 17 years old. In 1915, during the First World War, he enlisted in the British army and his first active service was at Serre and St.Quentin in 1917. He continued writing during his time as a soldier but was in active duty only for a few months since in April he suffered for shell shock and he spent a few months in Craiglockhart War Hospital recovering. It was during this period that he wrote his most famous works that talk about the hardships of war. He rejoined the army after his release …show more content…
Owen wrote this poem in 1917 and it describes the death of a soldier due to exhaustion. But the poem is interesting for my investigation since it says the dead soldiers wife would probably "get her fun/ In some new home, improved materially." (The Dead-beat, line12-13, Appendix 12). This portrays the women as uncaring since she wouldn't care her husband is dead and would soon move on to better things. But the poem that most clearly shows Owen's resentment towards women is one of his latest ones, "Disabled". This poem describes a war veteran who has lost both legs and an arm who is reflecting about what he thought war was going to be and what it actually turned out to be. The man remembers how the reason he first enlisted was to please his girlfriend, "That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg,/ Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts/ He asked to join." (Disabled, lines 26-28, Appendix 15). So the reason he joined the army was to make the girls happy, he then thinks of everything he expected and was told about war and realizes how it was all a lie and that while he joined the army to please the girls now they won't even look at him. "All of them touch him like some queer disease." (Disabled, line 13, Appendix 15). In this poem the women are portrayed as hypocrites since while they were the ones who encouraged men to join the army they now won't even take care of the wounded