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Mental Cases

Content

• Anticipates shell-shock victims
• Describes being tormented by the experiences of war
• Everything is turned into death, and every occasion is war
  • “Sunlight seems a blood smear; nigh becomes blood-black”

Style

• Gothic description of shell shock
  • “These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.”
  • Shell shock is not being able to leave the deathliness of war behind