Man He Killed

The Man He Killed, was written in 1902 by Thomas Hardy. This poem describes the sadness of war and how it affects the soldiers. This poem was written from the point of view of a soldier who was expressing his feelings at how war made him kill this man. This poem is spoken in first person. �Had he and I but met by some old ancient inn, we should have set us down to wet right many a nipper kin!� here I think this paragraph explains how if the soldier telling the story had met the soldier he killed in some hotel or something they could have gone out and had a drink and become friends or something. �I shot him dead because, because he was my foe, just so my foe of course he was that's clear enough although.� To me this paragraph means that he had to shoot this man because he was staring him down in the face pointing his weapon at him. The language is very straightforward and easy to read and understand with exception of some few words. It uses and informal way to show it, so that might seen more just like the soldier who killed that man is talking on his own. The point of this poem is to prove that war has no point at all, no country wins in the end. Thomas Hardy explained the stupidity of war by thinking about the things that were the same between the two men, who were enemies. Hardy thought about a friendship that could have existed between the two of them, if they had met somewhere else and not in war. It shows that a war is something horrible between different countries and religions instead of single men. He used a special way to describe the cruel of the war, in which he detailed displayed two common persons at that time, not criticizing the war straightly.

The tone was used to emphasize what he felt, which you can tell in this poem: anger, sadness, helplessness and commiseration. The poet used strong words to help you create an image in your head of how war affected their lives. Even though its language isn�t very complicated, it still contains some strong...