Disabled By Wilfred Owen: An Analysis
“Disabled” : The human cost of war
Wilfred Owen’ s poem “Disabled” was written during his four-month stay at Craiglock-
hart Hospital in 1917. The poem eloquently depicts the disassociation and detachment from self
and society felt by this solider who has become disabled. Owen uses the term “queer” to show
that the soldier’ s losses have made his body alien. These injuries have also removed his social
masculinity.
As I read the poetry of Wilfred Owen, I was often disheartened by his realistic depictions
of military combat. For the poet, the condition of shell shock from which he was suffering during
his stay at Craiglockhart Hospital was an important physical and poetic position for his writing.
Owen wrote in opposition to the war and yet supported the men he served with his poetry by
bringing the discomfort and horror of war to the eyes of the public. Disabled is one of the poems
written during his period at Craiglockhart that develops the......
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