Both Wilfred Owen and WH Auden effectively express their opinions on the delicate topic of war, having experienced first-hand the direct impact that is unquestionably evident in their poems "Disabled" and "Refugee Blues" respectively. Both poems focus on the intense depiction of the unglamorous consequences of war. “Disabled” as the title says is about a young soldier who is disabled both physically and emotionally during combat. The poem is written in third person in close focus and magnifies the soldier's reluctance to continue with his life as he falls into a slow depression, illustrated by pathos (pity) in close focus where at the end of the poem he is spoken to in the soldier's voice who wonders 'why don't they come?' in the hope of not receiving a response. Here "they" refers to death itself and the use of repetition reinforces its misery and endless suffering. Similarly, "Refugee Blues" depicts the lives of Jews forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust began with the voice of an old man speaking to what appears to be his wife using the phrase "my dear". The speaker's calm demeanor throughout the poem may suggest that he has made peace with the fact that he can do nothing and can only reassure his wife that everything will be fine 'But we are still alive, my dear, but we are still alive'. Alternatively, it could suggest his depression and loss of hope for a future. Both poems create a shocking contrast between before and after. In “Disabled,” Owen does this by alternating between the present and past tenses, as well as changing tone from happy to sad and providing the reader with backstory of how the soldier became disabled through occasional flashbacks throughout the poem. What is horrible... middle of the paper... the difference is that in "Disabled" the soldier feels completely alone and will never be loved again due to his physical disability, while in "Refugee blues" ', the refugees have companions among them but are emotionally isolated from the world around them since Hitler said they are no longer people and their passports were taken away from them while all the doors were closed in their faces "and yet there is no place for us, my dear, yet there is no place for us' In conclusion, both poems successfully represent the theme of the pity of war. However, I think we tend to sympathize more with the soldier in 'disabled' rather than with refugees in 'Refugee blues' because it is written more realistically than 'refugee blues' which states a very generalized idea without going too deep into the harsh details of the war.