Mental Cases

Mental Cases is one of Wilfred Owen's more disturbing works. It describes war-torn men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, otherwise known as shell shock. Owen based the poem on his experience of Craiglockhart Military Hospital, near Edinburgh, where he was invaldided in the summer of 1917, suffering from shell shock.

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"1914" · "A New Heaven" · "A Terre" · "Anthem for Doomed Youth" · "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo" · "Arms and the Boy" · "As Bronze may be much Beautified" · "Asleep" · "At a Calvary near the Ancre" · "Beauty" · "But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars" · "Conscious" · "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole" · "Disabled" · "Dulce et Decorum est" · "Elegy in April and September" · "Exposure" · "Futility" · "Greater Love" · "Happiness" · "Has Your Soul Sipped?" · "Hospital Barge" · "I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson" · "Insensibility" · "Inspection" · "Le Christianisme" · "Mental Cases" · "Miners" · "Music" · "S. I. W." · "Schoolmistress" · "Six O'Clock in Princes Street" · "Smile, Smile, Smile" · "Soldier's Dream" · "Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action" · "Spells and Incantations" · "Spring Offensive" · "Strange Meeting" · "The Calls" · "The Chances" · "The Dead-Beat" · "The End" · "The Kind Ghosts" · "The Last Laugh" · "The Letter" · "The Next War" · "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" · "The Roads Also" · "The Send-off" · "The Sentry" · "The Show" · "The Wrestlers" · "Training" · "Uriconium An Ode" · "Wild With All Regrets" · "With an Identity Disc"