Wilfred Owen: Poems

In the poem "Disabled", how Wilfred Own showed injustice

How did the writer in the poems "Disabled" show injustice?

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Owen is obviously sympathetic to the soldier's lack of understanding, but he is also angry about "the military system that enabled the soldier to enlist through lying about his age". Owen is careful to balance "the immaturity of the soldier...with anger at the view of war as glamorous, a view held by both the soldier before the war and by much of the public throughout." In the seventh stanza the soldier comes back to the present, realizing the bleakness of his future. He begins to fully comprehend the injustice of what war will do to the rest of his life. He knows that he will be in and out of institutes and hospitals, and will have to suffer through the pity of those in power that put him in danger in the first place. What exacerbates his situation is the continued slights from women, who look past him like he is invisible to men that are "whole".

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