Question

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.
(Siegfried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches")

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,
(Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est")

(two or more choices)

A. cowed and glumed,
B. With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
C. He put a bullet in his brain.
D. No one spoke of him again.
E. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod.
F. Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling,

Answer 1

C- He put a bullet in his brain

D- No one spoke of him again

Answer 2

C. & D.
He killed himself because he could no longer tolerate the horrors of war, his own psychological abilities to deal with the horrors had turned on himself, so that he took his own life. And unlike a normal situation in life, the war had made it so that life and meaning were no longer relevant. They did not recognize the value of his life dead or alive, demonstrating another mental loss in the psychology of warfare.