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‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The hero’ by Siegried Sassoon - How language is used to achieve their purpose
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Choose two or three poems from the coursework section of the anthology and discuss the way they use language to achieve their purpose. The two poems I am going to discuss are 'Disabled' by Wilfred Owen and 'The hero' by Siegried Sassoon. The two poems both give a considerably different view of war, and they both have a different purpose. 'Disabled' starts very gloomy. It describes how someone "sat in a wheelchair". This gives the reader the feeling of helplessness and inactivity. This is followed by "waiting for dark". In this case, "the dark" could mean the evening, but it could also mean that he is waiting for death. Another example of the helplessness is that someone needs to "put him into bed", which means he can't do it himself. The writer of this poem, Wilfred Owen also uses words like "sleep" to bring over this idea of inactiveness and gloom. To make...
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