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The Man He Killed By Thomas Hardy

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In the poem “The Man He Killed”, the author Thomas Hardy is speaking as a soldier who is retelling his wartime experiences, as the soldier talks his tone slowly changes as memories resurfaces. In the first stanza the soldier speak in a matter of fact way, but by the second stanza he is confident in his actions “I shot at him as he at me, and killed him in his place.” Though by the third and fourth stanza his state of mind is broken, as the memories of the war and of him killing the man start to haunt him. As he speaks he is trying to keep his composure, but as he remembers the events in the last stanza he just breaks “Yes; Quaint and curious war is!” In the soldiers mind he knew at the time he need to shoot the man; he was his enemy, but looking
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