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GCSE English Literature · key term
A historical term used for psychological distress associated with soldiers’ experiences of war.
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Paper 2
Revise: ExposureIn 1917 he was treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart War Hospital, where he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who encouraged his writing from experience. His emphasis on the pity and suffering of war contrasts with confidently patriotic poetry such as Rupert Brooke’s. Exposure draws on Owen’s experiences in the winter of 1917, offering an alternative to accounts centred on honour or victory.
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A historical term used for psychological distress associated with wartime experiences, including symptoms such as nightmares and anxiety.
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In 1917, he received treatment for shell shock at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where the soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon encouraged his writing. Owen wrote ‘Disabled’ during this period. His knowledge of wartime suffering helps explain the poem’s challenge to glamorous ideas of military service; the unnamed soldier is not Owen himself.
