Poem Analysis

Introduction

Arguably, the most daunting and frightening task for a person would be to kill someone. However, it is human nature to search for justifications to one's actions while also questioning them at other times. The poem “The Man He Killed” is a poem that explores these feelings of a killer. Written by Thomas Hardy, the poem describes the feelings that a man experiences when he has taken the life of another man (Radford, 2003). The poem is basically narrated by a man questioning his actions after he has killed someone. Hardy shows his poetic genius by using techniques clever word ...