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Owen, in turn, sets the final stanza of “Mental Cases” with similar phrasing. The “night comes blood-black” and forces the “mental cases” to encounter “human squander rucked too thick” for the men to break free from the war and confines of the horrors in their own minds. Owen, “Mental Cases,” 69. ................
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