... Owen describes vividly in his poemMental Cases? aswading sloughs of flesh? and to thebatter of guns and flying muscles?. The irony in this scene is that Callan's mutism is his subconscious protest against all the wrong, the pain and the terror of war. Yealland, by making Callan speaks essentially silencing this touching, futile protest and forcing him to live his life ... was described as a 'separate effort, hauling his mud-clogged boots out of sucking earth?. Barker lets us know poignantly that Burns has gone mad as she describes to us thathis mind was incapable of making comparisons, ...

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