In the poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy, the author is describing the identity of a man, when there is a situation where a man has to take a decision in a split second without having hesitation. In the poem, there was some situation a man had to take an action in a split second when he was fighting with his foe “live or die”. For example, each and every individual has some circumstance where they risk their own life or they do whatever it takes to survive in society. Exactly, in this poem a man meets with his some unknown foe and furthermore, the situation made him to face his foe in the front battle, where they can see each other face. Unfortunately, that moments when they were aiming each other the man shot his foe to his death without