Which sentences highlight the psychological consequences of war?
In winter trenches, (cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.)
(Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est")
Men marched asleep. (Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. )All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
(Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!–An ecstasy of fumbling,)
(Siegfried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches")
In winter trenches, (cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.)
(Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est")
Men marched asleep. (Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. )All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
(Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!–An ecstasy of fumbling,)
(Siegfried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches")