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The Man He Killed - Coggle Diagram
The Man He Killed
Language/Structure/Form
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2nd Stanza
Starts with the connective 'But' which continues the line of argument: THIS IS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Explains it very clearly
Kill or be killed - survival, justify why he did this
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3rd Stanza
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Repetition of foe, trying to convince himself that he was his foe
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4th Stanza
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The man is empathetic for the soldier that he killed - viewing the soldier as a human or person instead of just a piece of the war
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5th Stanza
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The adjective 'quaint' - backward, sweet, this shows that Hardy doesn't understand war
Change from 'He', 'Him', 'I' to 'You' and 'You'd'
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Meaning of the Poem
The poem presents a division between the political classes who initiate wars and those who fight in the wars
The speaker of the poem is representative of the working class - his voice symbolises that section of society - his thoughts imply that he signed up to the war out of necessity and they didn't agree with fighting
Hardy wrote this poem to express his feelings about the Boer War - how he felt the war was unnecessary and that the violence isn't needed
Context
Biographical
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Wrote about sex, unmarried mothers, people living together
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Themes of Hardy's writing include injustice, love, break-ups, disappointment, fate and the unfair treatment of women
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