Man He Killed

The Titian-red blood spurting from a casualty's open wound, as men wailed and screamed; war was an inevitable unfortunate event. The beginning, middle and end of war is like a deeply distressing or disturbing experience to encounter during mankind's greatest destruction of oneself. War can wound a human's soul physically and mentally. Through the development of " The Man He Killed" Thomas Hardy emphasizes the main character's morality and self-justification, from a senseless and futility act of war, solely based off of the descriptive context in the poem.

The overview of the poem is an amplified skirmish segment amide by two characters. The short poem contains two unnamed characters that will eventually become recognized as foes, thus commencing a dramatic face-to-face showdown. One character shall remain remorseful, through pure moral consciousness, while the other (character) would remain as a cigarette, slowly but surely killing someone in the Inside, without knowing. Through the first stanza, the poet says, "Had he and I but meet"(1), which is elucidating an alternate situation of meeting a different way. The first line

The character experiencing the survival of war is surely giving sarcastic adjectives to describe war, simply because the character has indulged himself in the realization of killing one another had no objective/achievement to fulfill his own desires. The character goes on by setting up an analogy of his own moral dilemma and states "You shoot a fellow down/You'd treat"(17/18), which explains the situation of winding up killing a man you'd happily buy a "treat"(drink) for. The character sees the morality in war influencing others to kill men you'd happily be buddies with. You initially kill