people were killed in wars because they followed the orders from their authorities. They didn’t even have an accurate reason to kill others‚ but they still did it as it was their missions. Obedience is a form of social influence where people follow an order from another‚ who is often their authorities. Obedience is depicted more clearly in the poems by Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost. In the poem “ The Man He Killed”(1902)‚ Hardy illustrates the man kills his enemy as it is his mission. He questions
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Research Paper Thomas Hardy is a novelist‚ a poet‚ a writer and much more he has been a very huge influence on British liturature. Hardy was influenced by the Romantism period and looked up to both Charles Dickens and William Wordworth. Like Dickens‚ he was very much critical of the Victorian Society. Hardy was born June 2‚ 1840 in the village of Upper Bockhampton. Thomas Hardy was more of a poet than a novelist. I am focusing more on Hardy’s poems where he uses irony‚ imagery‚ and dialect
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do. They swiftly aim their guns at each other and fire. Opening his eyes‚ he sees the enemy lying on the ground motionless. His teammates cheer for his victory‚ however‚ little did they know‚ the soldier is impacted and tries to ease his guilt or justify his action. Killing a man during war and how one copes with it is shown in the short story “The Man I Killed” by Tim O’Brien‚ and in the poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy. In O’Brien’s passage‚ Tim shot a Vietnamese soldier. This action caused
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Mankind has fought wars for centuries; over many different types of things like religion‚ resources‚ and territorial growth. “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy‚ can undoubtedly be considered an anti-war poem. The narration takes the reader through the remorse the soldier feels as he considers the weight of his actions. The simple‚ straightforward nature of the poem seemingly begs the reader to understand it. However‚ there are many details in the lines that warrant a second reading. There are several
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an absurd tragedy. Both “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy and “Old Mother Savage” by Guy de Maupassant explore the theme that war is absurd because it makes enemies of those who would otherwise be friends. First‚ the speaker of “The Man He Killed” discovers that war makes enemies of those who would otherwise be friends. The speaker of the poem is a soldier that is on the battlefield facing his enemy. In the first stanza‚ the speaker of the poem exclaims “Had he and I but met…we should have sat
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Gianna-Alexis 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
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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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Repetition‚ Symbolism‚ and Word Play in Hardy’s “The Man He Killed” Because war is a mysterious entity‚ Thomas Hardy wrote “The Man He Killed” to emphasize the occasional inadequate reason for conflict‚ and the range of emotions someone may feel after engaging in conflict that an individual might feel unnecessary‚ and after taking a persons life simply because he was my “foe”‚ especially in the Boers Wars in which the British colonized South Africa‚ in which this poem is set. Hardy is able to convey
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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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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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