... stanza starts immediately with a shock. "GAS! GAS!" The words jolt the reader from the stupor induced by the monotonous suffering of the first stanza. "Ecstasy" seems a strange word to describe the soldiers fumbling to don the gas masks. I suppose it describes an immediate panic and the awakening of the lame and blind soldiers described in the first stanza. The description of the nameless soldier drowning in the gas is significant. It is as if ... . Understanding that the intent of the author was to debunk the old Latin saying from whence the title is derived, the author (whom we now kno...

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