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    War is hell. Nations have gone to war over land‚ resources and nationalistic pride. Many writers have depicted war as 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

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    This poem presents its composer‚ Thomas Hardy‚ through a persona of grief over his late wife. The poem is contextualized immediately after Mrs. Hardys death as the widowed persona stands by her grave. The poem moves from third person perspective through to a first person point of view. It reflects on the personas guilt of mistreating his late wife before her death and his yearning to be with her in the present. Would I lay there And she were housed there! Or better‚ togetherWe both‚ - who would

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    The Son’s Veto: Thomas Hardy. Written in the late 19th century and published in the collection Life’s little ironies‚ this story focuses on Hardy’s usual areas – rural England and its demise; the position of women in society; the class system and the role of the church in sustaining it and the ironic nature of much of life. In brief: The demise of rural England is best shown in the comparison between Gaymead (the name itself being telling) and London as shown at the end of the first chapter

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    ’Afterwards‚’ by Thomas Hardy‚ is a poem that questions the way that people will look upon the narrator after his death. It centre’s around the idea of ’noticing things‚’ showing the narrators precision and the ambivalence of his neighbours. Hardy gets this across by the techniques that he uses‚ and the detailed descriptions which show the full extent of what the narrator has noticed. The poem shows the complexity of nature‚ and describes the cycle of life. The first stanza begins by personifying

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    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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    present afternoon‚ P.M.’ (14).” -Here Hardy shows that Jon Durbeyfield is very susceptible to anything. He believes in everything that people tell him with out doing his research to see if his so called lineage is even true. By John acting so superior toward other people‚ by saying “obey my orders” he is letting the reader know that every time that he may seem ahead in life he acts superior to others; maybe that this is how Hardy will portray other characters

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    The Son’s Veto |Character |Trait |Quote or action | |Sophy |Kind |She took her son’s correction of her grammar and “did not resent his making it” (p47). | |(Mrs Twycott)

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    November 2014    “The Man He Killed” has a powerful title for a poem. An English Victorian poet from 1902‚ Thomas Hardy‚ who is against the war‚ wants the reader to know that he is not the one who has killed someone. Hardy characterizes the main character as a casual guy who joined the military out of hope to have a more stable lifestyle. The themes of this poem are guilt‚ society‚ and anti-war. Hardy uses good imagery while letting the reader feel as though they could picture the whole incident.  The

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    |[pic] |Thomas Hardy’s poetry - study guide | [pic] |Navigation Home page |[|Introduction | |Contents Forum Maximize |p|About Thomas Hardy | |Search Comment Mail me |i|War poems

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    centre of order for the now chaotic world‚ as old aesthetics and beliefs simply did not seem to fit anymore. This sense of aloneness and being unstuck from reality is a quintessential trait of early 20th century texts. By examining the work of Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats (two contemporary poets of the time)‚ a real sense of the estrangement experienced comes across. Many social and political crises around the turn of the century aided the development of Modernism (approximately 1890 onwards)

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