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By Thomas Hardy. "Had he and I but met. By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet. Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place.
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This poem follows a pretty simple scheme. “Met” and “wet” rhyme, as do “inn” and “nipperkin”, giving this poem an ABAB rhyme scheme. The result is a lulling, nursery rhyme kind of feeling. The subject of ‘The Man He Killed,’ however, is clearly not nursery rhyme material, and the rhyme and rhythm paired with the ideas presented create a sense of ir...
‘The Man he Killed‘ uses iambic meter throughout, with some variation. Generally, the first, second, and fourth lines of each stanza are in iambic trimeter (three metrical feet), while the third line is in iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet). This regular metrical pattern contributes to the poem’s sing-song quality, which sounds almost like a nu...
Stanza One
This poem begins with the hypothetical that the speaker and a man meet up in “some old ancient inn”. Because the title is, “the man he killed” the readers can assume that the speaker is referring to the man he killed. He is giving a hypothetical to help the readers to understand the humanity of each of them. Immediately, the readers can picture two men meeting up by chanceand sitting down for a drink together. A “nipperkin” refers to a type of container that held a certain amount of liquid. T...
Stanza Two
The word “but” jolts the reader out of the hypothetical and back to reality. In real life, as a part of the infantry, the speaker stared a man in the face and shot him. The man also shot at the speaker. The speaker “killed him in his place”. This stanza also reveals to the reader that the speaker had a near-death experience. The speaker, being so focused on the man he shot, does not give any insight into what he felt at having been the man to walk away. The fact that the two men were face to...
Stanza Three
The first two lines of this stanza of ‘The Man He Killed’ reveal that the speaker does not really know why he shot the man. He says “I shot him dead because-” and then he pauses. The reader can imagine what he is thinking, for he does not know why he killed him. Then he finally gives the reason. He says he killed him because he was a foe. Then, he asserts, “my foe of course he was; that’s clear enough;” as if to try to justify what he did when he shot the man. It is clear that the speaker is...
Thomas Hardy began his writing career with novels, but when many of them received negative reviews, he seemed to abandon fiction in favor of poetry. The time period in which Hardy lived was such that he experienced war first hand. He also had a keen interest in history and studied many of the wars that had happened much before his time. This knowle...
"Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place.
"The Man He Killed" was written by the British Victorian poet and novelist Thomas Hardy and first published in 1902. A dramatic monologue, the poem's speaker recounts having to kill a man in war with whom he had found himself "face to face."
The Man He Killed. The first two poems draw on Hardy's thoughts during the war between Britain and the South African Dutch, the so-called Boer War. This one, 'The Man He Killed', was dated 1902 by Hardy, and is meant to be spoken by a soldier.
Sep 22, 2023 · Hardy's 'The Man He Killed' is a short, rhyming poem focusing on an ordinary man returned from war who killed another because 'he was my foe.'. Without war, they may have been friends. This monologue raises questions of emotional responses to and moral implications of cold acts of killing in war.
The Man He Killed is one of the Hardy’s famous poem that he wrote after the Boer wars. The setting of the poem is a battlefield where the speaker meets an unknown person for the first time and he killed that unknown person because he was his enemy created by the battlefield.
