Beyond Pity. Owen, Auden, and the Enduring Ethics of War and Displacement

Academic Paper from the year 2025 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, language: English, abstract: This article offers a comparative reading of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Disabled’ and W.H. Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’. It explores how both poets critique the limitations of ‘pity’ in response to wartime suffering. While each poem elicits compa...