Sympathy Essay Plan



Sympathy Essay Plan

‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen

TASK:

How does Wilfred Owen create sympathy in the reader. Explain who the reader feels sorry for, and go on to show how poetic techniques are used to elicit this sympathy.

• You have been given the main POINT for each section.

• You should identify the quotes you will use in each section, then note down what you will analyse about each quote.

|POINT |QUOTE(S) |FEATURE TO ANALYSE |

|In the first stanza we are presented with a |“waiting for dark” |Ambiguity – Dark = night-time/sleep or death. |

|description of the soldier’s present life. We feel| | |

|sympathy for the miserable situation he appears to| | |

|be in. |“shivered” | |

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| |“ghastly suit of grey” | |

|When the poet moves back in time to describe the | | |

|boy’s happy life before the war, we begin to see | | |

|how awful his present existence is by contrast to | | |

|his joyful and handsome youth | | |

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|The reader is upset to discover in the fourth | | |

|stanza that the boy shouldn’t really have been a | | |

|soldier and that he signed up illegally for all | | |

|the wrong reasons. | | |

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|The poet’s critical tone when describing the way | | |

|the boy was treated upon return from war (compared| | |

|to when he left) makes the reader pity the | | |

|soldier. | | |

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|Towards the end of the poem, Owen uses a number of| | |

|techniques to elicit the reader’s sympathy when he| | |

|considers the soldier’s future and returns to the | | |

|image he began with: the soldier sitting alone in | | |

|his wheelchair waiting from someone to put him to | | |

|bed. | | |

|The structure of ‘Disabled’ helps to convey the | |. |

|confused and distressed state of the young | | |

|soldier, and the tragedy of his situation. | | |

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|This poem still have relevance today because… | | |

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