Disabled - Wilfred Owen - Mindmap in IGCSE English Language

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Disabled - Wilfred Owen
- sample questions
  - How successfully does the writer compare the ideas of sport and war in 'Disabled'?
    - effects of war
    - past and present attidudes
    - the writer's use of imagery and colour
    - use of contrast
    - the writers use of words, phrases and techniques
  - How does the writer convey the relationship between the past and present?
  - How does the poet use 'Disabled' to explore different attitudes towards war?
  - How does the poet create pathos towards the subject?
  - How does the poet create a sense of loss?
- present events
  - "He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, / And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, / Legless, sewn short at elbow.
  - "Now he will never..."
  - "Now, he is old..."
  - "He wonders why."
  - "How, he will spend a few sick years..."
- past events
  - "About this time Town used to swing so gay..."
  - "There was an artist silly for his face...last year."
  - "One time he liked..."
  - "After the matches..."
  - "Someone had said he'd..."
  - "Austria's did not move him..."
- sport
  - "Voices of boys...Voices of play"
    - youth and sport
    - celebrated - hero
    - collaborative, team
    - male (boys playing)
  - "After the matches, carried shoulder-high. / It was after football,"
    - recruiting officers went to football matches to get people to join into the war
      - war
        "He thought he'd better join...to please his Meg;"
        go to war to please women
        
        "He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;"
        joining war
        
        "Germans he scarcely thought of..."
    - cheering - crowds sending him off
    - context of pals brigade
      - however, he is now alone
  - "cheer Goal."
- war
  - "He thought he'd better join...to please his Meg;"
    - go to war to please women
  - "He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;"
    - joining war
  - "Germans he scarcely thought of..."
- annotations
  - "grey" "light-blue" "He's lost his colour" "purple"
    - colour
  - "Legless, sewn short at elbow."
    - lost legs and arms
  - "Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, / Voices of play and pleasure after day,"
    - sounds
  - "And shivered is his ghastly suit of grey,"
    - opening = ignorance and criticism of recruiting and public
  - "before he threw away his knees."
    - careless - he has done it to himself - seems like a choice - he has messed up
  - "Now, he is old;"
    - as though he has become old - aged a lot
  - "very far from here,"
    - back in France
  - "Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry
    - his own responsibility, own carelessness
  - "Now, he will spend a few sick years in Institutes..."
    - pathos - he is alone
  - "Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal."
    - break in line - highlights contrast
WILFRED OWEN: 18th March 1893 - 4th November 1918 (died in France), English poet and solider, lived in Shropshire, used sound a lot in poems, anger about war, increasingly critical bond