The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy this is dramatic poem and reflective poem . It consist of five stanza each stanza have four line . The speaker her is not the poet ‚ it is a soldier who kills another man without any sensible reason . He is enlisted forced to join the army ‚ he is poor‚ uneducated ‚out of work but he is very kind and generous. He is very sensitive ‚ he feel guilty because he kill another man without any reason ‚ he is puzzled and unsatisfied‚ so he send us a massage "stop war" to
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Explication of "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy 1. "Had he and I but met 2. By some old ancient inn‚ 3. We should have sat us down to wet 4. Right many a nipperkin! 5. "But ranged as infantry‚ 6. And staring face to face‚ 7. I shot at him as he at me. 8. And killed him in his place. 9. "I shot him dead because- 10. Because he was my foe. Throughout the poem it is easy to tell that the flow of this poem is non-traditional‚ for example‚ Hardy expresses hesitation in lines one and
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Maria Remarque and Thomas Hardy’s’ “The Man He Killed” characters struggles with the emotional effects of war. Despite the internal struggle faced by Paul and the speaker from the poem‚ both
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Huballah June 26‚ 2012 Professor Mosser English 1102 Analysis: The Man He Killed Killing another human being is something that most people would find very hard to do. Do a person’s feelings towards violent actions change in the course of a war? In the poem‚ "The Man He Killed‚" By Thomas Hardy; he illustrates a story of a man who questions his own actions of doing harm to another person. Throughout the poem‚ Hardy uses tone and word choice to get his point across in the poem. Even though
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of "The Man He Killed" In "The Man He Killed‚" Thomas Hardy demonstrates a sense of disgust for war‚ by comparing two men‚ who could have grown up together‚ and are now fighting against each other for someone else’s cause. The speaker‚ a young man who has served his country and killed an opposing soldier‚ relates to the man he has killed. This is a closed form style poem with dark undertones of the senselessness of war. In the first stanza‚ the young man describes meeting the man he’s killed
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the course of a war? In the poem‚ "The Man He Killed‚" by Thomas Hardy‚ he illustrates a narrative of a man who questions his own actions of doing harm to another individual. Throughout the poem‚ Hardy uses the techniques of tone and word choice to get his ideas across the poem. Though the poem is a bit short‚ is does have a very strong atmosphere that give off very different tones. At the beginning it is very heartwarming when the narrator suggest that he and the person in front of him could have
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O’Flaherty and the poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy are two pieces that deal with the issues of war‚ and in fact share many similarities and differences in the areas of plot‚ irony‚ and theme. Liam O’Flaherty
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to one of the Thomas Hardy’s autobiography‚ he presents a picture of himself as a sensitive young man who attended church regularly and believed in a personal God who ruled the universe. Then when Hardy went to London in his early twenties and discovered such intellectual ferment as caused by Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means and Natural Selection” (1859)‚ Hardy then lost his faith and never recovered it. Hardy then began to see the world without any ruler or God. He started to think
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Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy‚ written by Trevor Johnson‚ is the detailed journey through the life of one of England’s greatest writers. This biography describes some of the major details of his life such as his family‚ his education‚ and his major works. 	Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 at the Village of Upper Bochampton. He was the child of a country stonemason. Hardy was the third Thomas of his family. His mother’s maiden name was Jemima Hand and she and her husband led Hardy to have an
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Thomas Hardy‚ OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist‚ in the tradition of George Eliot‚ he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism‚ especially by William Wordsworth.[1] Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy.[2] Like Dickens‚ he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society‚ though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life‚ and regarded himself
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