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    "Disabled" / "Refugee Blues": A Poem Comparison Essay The subject of war and the loss of human life has had a deep influence on poetry of the first half of the 20th century. Many poets from around the world had felt the direct impact of earth-shattering wars and went on to express their opinions through their works. It was during wartime eras that the poems "Disabled" and "Refugee Blues" were written by Wilfred Owen and W.H. Auden respectively. Both of the given war poems are considered

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    Wilfred Owen in his poem "Disabled" uses lot of poetic techniques to heighten the sense of an antiwar theme through his writing. He portrays the story of a young individual who has gone to the war due to the misleading propaganda at the time The first technique that we can pick out from the poem is antithesis. We can see that in the way he lived before he attended compared to the way he lived after he experienced war. Antithesis can be found in many aspects of these two experiences. First he presents

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    DISABLED POET (BACKGROUND) WILFRED OWEN ANTI-WAR POET WROTE THE POEM WHEN JOINING THE WAR WAS CONSIDERED A HEROIC ACT SOLDIER ENLISTED DURING WW1 AND SUFFERED THE BRUTALITY OF THE WAR HAD ENLISTED FOR THE WRONG REASONS MISUNDERSTOOD WAR FOR GAME SETTING WHEELED CHAIR‚ IN AA HOSPITAL IN A COLD PLACE WITH DARK IMAGES STRUCTURE IRREGULAR STANZA PATTERN (REFLECTS THE INNER STATE OF MIND) IRREGULAR RHYME SCHEME THEME DECEIVING PROPAGANDA OF WAR. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MISLED ABOUT

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    3 Mr. Medina November 8th 2012 Society’s View of the Disabled Discrimination against people with disabilities is one of the greatest social injustices in our country today. Unfortunately it is also one of the least publicized and most neglected social issues in recent history. People with disabilities are generally looked at and talked about in a negative way‚ and are subsequently treated differently than people who are not seen as disabled. It is hard to pinpoint the very source of many stereotypes

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    disabled Key sentence/phrase Thema Ongeziene littekens is een terugkerend thema in Owen ’s oorlog gedichten. In ‘Disabled’ beschrijft hij hoe de soldaat niet de pijn van zichzelf heeft‚ maar de pijn van anderen omdat deze namelijk niet erg begripvol reageren op zijn situatie. Ook al is hij van buiten namelijk niet gewond‚ van binnen zal hij nooit meer worden zoals hij was voor de oorlog. Titel Disabled‚ betekent verminkt. Hij heeft dit als titel gekozen omdat een soldaat die terug keert

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    1. Wilfred own aimed to convey to “the pity of war” in his poetry. How does he try to do this in disabled? Introduction: Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893 and died 4th November 1918‚ 1 week before World War 1 (WW1) ended pity is conveyed through the connection between the past and the present and how the solider is described and the mental torment.  It expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenaged soldier in World War Iwho has lost his limbs in battle and is

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    and no problems. Harrison Bergeron lives in a world where everyone is made equal with physical and mental handicaps such as weights‚ masks‚ and brain buzzers. The book Anthem is based in a place where everyone in the society is brainwashed to think they only live as part of a unit. In Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” and Rand’s Anthem‚ equality and the main characters are both very similar in many ways. The Main characters from both pieces of writing are very similar in a few ways. In “Harrison Bergeron”

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    Comparative essay between the poems “Out‚ Out-” and “Disabled” Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost both use their poems “Out‚ Out-” and “Disabled” to portray the destruction of youth and how it can be cut short by a lack of maturity and wisdom. This creates a sense of loss of innocence within the reader. In “Out‚ Out-” the subject or character has a very quick and short death which contrasts to “Disabled” as death would be a merciful release to the veteran described. Frost and Owen also both use a third

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    Ashlyn Eisenga April 28‚ 2013 Anthem Essay: Literary Elements Anthem A genre is a category of expressing oneself in writing. According to Wikipedia’s list of genres‚ the genre of Anthem can be viewed as speculative fiction. Fiction is a writing about things‚ events and characters that are not true. Ayn Rands uses dystopia as her fictitious genre. The Wikipedia also goes on to say that Dystopia is a community that is in some important way‚ undesireable or frightening. Dystopian societies

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    ANTHEM ESSAY In many real and fictionalized totalitarian societies‚ children live apart from their families. In Ayn Rand’s novella‚ ‘Anthem’‚ dictatorial leaders enforce this living arrangement in order to control all the people‚ since they are born. Ayn Rand conceived this novel when she was a teenager living in the Soviet-Russia. At the time‚ the Soviet-Russia was‚ as the Anthem society‚ an equal collectivism society‚ in which the leaders and governments have the upmost control‚ and people are

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