Disabled (Paper 2)

Question 1

Key quotations

Answer 1

• Disabled
• “Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn”
• Never feel again how slim Girls’ waists are, or how warm their subtle hands; All of them touch him like some queer disease
• purple spurted
• That’s why; and maybe,too, to please his Meg
• Of Fear came yet.
• …but not as crowds cheer Goal

Question 2

Disabled (analysis)

Answer 2

Contrast to typical image of a soldier: someone in excellent physical health- indicates the harrowing effects of war

Question 3

“Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn” (analysis)

Answer 3

• Serves to emphasise his looneliness
• Positive connotations of boys playing contrasted with the melancholic tone of a hym- he cannot se joy in anything

Question 4

Never feel again how slim Girls’ waists are, or how warm their subtle hands; All of them touch him like some queer disease (analysis)

Answer 4

• “Never” adverb- definitive - hobelessness
• Contrast from romantic imagery to harsh rejection

Question 5

purple spurted (analysis)

Answer 5

• Signifies energy and vigour
• Assonance gives emphasis to moment

Question 6

That’s why; and maybe,too, to please his Meg (analysis)

Answer 6

Short clause indicate heightened emotion

Question 7

Of Fear came yet. (analysis)

Answer 7

Capitalisation of “Fear” Stresses the terror of war

Question 8

…but not as crowds cheer Goal

Answer 8

Capitalisation- greated importance placed on performance in football than war

Question 9

Context

Answer 9

Wilfred Owen witnessed the horror of World War I and he was hurt on the battlefield. The poem was written whilst he was recovering in hospital, in Edinburgh. He was diagnosed with shell shock. It was in this hospital that he met one of the other famous war poets, Siegfried Sassoon. Owen is just one of the many poets who recorded the events on the frontline in poetic form. After writing the poem, he returned to the battlefield. He died on 4th November 1918 and his parents discovered that their son had been lost on Armistice Day.

Question 10

Ideas

Answer 10

The poem is written about a soldier who has been injured in the war. He is sat in a wheelchair and he is in a lonely place. He considers his past and how he used to be good looking and an artist. He lied about his age to enter the army. At the time, he thought it would be glorious to be a soldier and he had not thought about the wider implications of entering into military service. There is a sadness in the poem that they will not escape the horror of the way and of his uncertain future. It is a hopelessness that represents the generation, rather than simply the soldier identified.