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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

How do Owen and Auden convey the negative effects of war in their poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’’?

In the numberss Disabled and Refugee Blues, the writers, Owen and Auden respectively, guide the oppose effects of state of war in a variety of ways. Through the drop structuring, literary and figurative devices, Auden subtly shows the contradict effects of war, whereas Owen does this it more explicitly, show the de-humanizing, gruesome effects of war. In the poem Disabled, Owen displays the more gruesome, horrendous reality he does this in a variety of ways.Firstly he uses a randomize stanza social structure, the stanzas do not have a consistent amount of lines. The stanza structure is emphasizing how the spends think, because most soldiers act upon their animalistic instinct, Owen has apply this idea rely on instinct to create his structure, not scarce does this confuse the reader but Owen besides tries to emphasize on how the war has affected the soldiers.Owen withal uses a lot of different literary devices to military service him, metaphor is used throughout the po em to help develop the poem, Voices of boys rang saddening uniform a hymn, the voices of boys made the soldier feel sad they strain him remember his childhood, it was not long ago that he was like those boys, discharge freely, however it seems like a distant memory.Owen is emphasizing that the war robbed the soldier of his innocence and naivety, he is also a little jealous of them, they remedy believe in fairy tales and happy endings, whereas the soldier understands the true colours of reality. In the old times, before he threw away his knees/All of them upset him like some queer disease these two quotes, emphasize on the fact that the soldier threw away his legs when he enlisted in the army, if he didnt sign up he wouldnt be disable and the girls would smooth be flirting with him.The girls do not want to be with soul who is crippled heroes do not get injured. It seems like he has wedded up on demeanor as much as life has given up on him, he has succumbed into the idea th at he is not a real man anymore others can sense this well-nigh him and stay away because they do not want to be dragged eat up by his self-pity. Granted, the women could be touching him in disgust, it is also likely that it is him who is communicate his own feelings of disgust on them.The war can affect both(prenominal) the social life and the personal life negatively, thus creating a in truth negative atmosphere in the stanza. Owen also makes effective use of alliterations, Legless, run up short at elbow, not wholly does this quote assort us the exact extent of the soldiers disability, but during World warfare I it was common practice to sew shut pant legs and sleeves when someone is absent the limb or appendix, the quote makes us pity the soldier, moreover it is also common that soldiers lose a limbs during war, creating a very brutal and negative view upon war.Another alliteration that has been used, And a bounciness of purple spurted from his thigh, a leap of purple coul d relate to blood or bruises, this quote indicates the cruelness of his injuries, although it was a large injury, the poem portrays it only as a leap of purple, this makes the injury seem small and insignificant, and which was likely how the government and the higher-ups viewed the disabled soldiers. Although W.H Auden wrote Refugee Blues half a year before World War II broke out, the Nazis (Nationalists) have already been hunt down Jews and exterminating them, Refugee Blues is a Jewish perspective on the war. W. H. Auden has structured his poem into tersets, and each stanza proposes a different theme and part of the Jewish refugees life, it also isolates the stanza, emphasizing each negative point Auden has made.Auden uses very effective metaphors to convey the different negative effects of Hitlers rein, Saw a poodle in a jacket fastened with a pin, /Saw a door open and a cat let in/ only if they werent German Jews, my dear, they werent German Jews. In this quote, W. H. Auden was comparing the Jewish with a poodle and a mere street cat, not only does it emphasize how un-wanted the Jews were, Auden himself degraded the Jewish into something that was utterly despised and negatively viewed.

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