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Mental Cases Quotes - Coggle Diagram
Mental Cases Quotes
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'Memory fingers in their hair of murders,'
'Murders' undermines the war as it is not just murder, it was a slaughter of men.
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'Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish,'
This animalistic imagery dehumanises the men and the 'jaws that slob' show a sign of laziness which foes against propaganda as these are not the heroic men that it describes.
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'Sleeping, and walking hell; but who these hellish?'
'Hellish' demonises the soldiers and emphasise that they are the living and that they have lost all their humanity.
'Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,'
'Helpless wander' shows that this irreversible and they will forever be stuck helplessly wandering and forever in a state of stasis.
'Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows,'
These men are forever stuck in purgatory, waiting and are in stasis between heaven and hell.
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'Stroke on stroke of pain, - but what slow panic'
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'Always they must see these things and hear them,'
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'Back into their brains, because on their sense'
Constant thoughts of the horrors of war, which can also allude to madness and that these men are living in a parallel reality.
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'Snatching after us who smote them, brother,'
'Brother' is sarcastic and accusatory towards the home front and the reader for allowing the war to happen and for unprecedented injuries to form.
'Smote' shows the punishment of war of the inevitability of war.
'- Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,'
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