Appreciation On Exposure

Appreciation On Exposure

The poem ‘Disabled’ is all about a young soldier who has lost both his legs due to the war. The poem describes how isolated the soldier feels now and how bitter he is towards what has happened to him. It also talks about the reasons why many young men joined the army in World War 1.
In the first verse we learn that the soldier is very depressed and that he feels isolated from the rest of the world and the rest of his community.   In the verse we know that from his hospital bed the soldier can hear the children playing and are happy and this makes him sad and depressed as he will never be able to join them due to his disability.                                                                               ‘Voices of play and pleasure after day’.                                                                         At the end of the verse it says,                                                                                   ‘Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him’.                                                 This line suggests the separation between the soldier and the voices. It tells us that the soldier believes that he is in a world apart from everybody else. It also suggests that the soldier believes that people don’t want to be around him anymore and mothers want to keep their children away from them due to his disability.
In the beginning of the second verse the soldier is reminiscing about his life before he went to war and lost his legs. He remembered that this time the year before he would go out with his friends and have a good time. Line 8 in the poem,                                                                                                                               ‘When glow lamps budded in the light blue trees’ is an unusual idea as if the lamp was growing in the trees. He goes on to remembering that at night he would feel attracted to girls. The soldier then turns bitter by saying,...