Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Mental Cases Comments

Rating: 3.4

Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?
Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows,
Drooping tongues from jays that slob their relish,
Baring teeth that leer like skulls' teeth wicked?
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Wilfred Owen
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Jim Tommy Jim 04 March 2020

slightly.....gay Sorry but that's the only way to describe it

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ILikeToAnalyis 05 October 2019

This poem is just one of the few remaining examples of a Soldier's point of view during the first world war. Extremely helpful and I believe it helped us further research PTSD

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Lachie Mason 31 March 2019

really devine poem, just crazy

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harry Ryan 31 March 2019

greatness my favourite poem of all time

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Alexander Kopievsky 31 March 2019

great call

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eeeeee 16 November 2018

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Liam Taylor 04 March 2015

10/10 would read again

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eeeeee 10 June 2019

read it again then

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Cathy O 27 February 2015

Historically his knowledge is impressive. PTSD was not really a thing during world war one. Or it had no true form of treatment. I believe this is a great representation of the horror of the trenches.

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ILikeToAnalyis 05 October 2019

It isn't that it wasn't a thing so much that it wasn't recognized as something you would gain throught the conditions and horror of War and was instead interpreted as Cowardice. There was no treatment at the time as far as I know though.

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Conrad B. 23 November 2013

This poem is misquoted in two places, both in the lines Drooping tongues from jays that slob their relish, / Baring teeth that leer like skulls' teeth wicked? The correct quote is Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, / Baring teeth that leer like skulls' tongues wicked? both jays and teeth are incorrect.

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Jane Moon 03 June 2009

Ah, here is the catastrophe of war: men traumatized beyond endurance, destroyed for life. Is death preferable? What grotesque past destroyed their minds? What pathetic future enslaves them, these individuals so devastated and haunted. War has no purpose but destruction - so wrong!

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Philip Ford 25 February 2005

The greatest anti-war poem ever written

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Wilfred Owen

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