The Man He Killed

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a former British coin and monetary unit equal to two shillings and sixpence

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He says because twice to emphasize the clarity of his reason. He begins to say it with his own words, then stops and says it in the words he was trained to use. He repeats himself, saying his foe is indeed his foe, for his own sanity. He is making the distiction between the two that they are to not be friends and it is okay to kill him. When he ends the stanza with "although" it brings up a question. Ie. I really don't want to go to the snowball fight because I have homework, although... This could be ended with it would be really fun so I'm in. Although brings up a situation.

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Thomas Hardy's poem 'The Man He Killed' focusses on the senselessness and futility of war, where a man has killed another quite simply because they were fighting on opposing sides in a war.
Written in the first person from the standpoint of one of the soldiers, the first stanza expresses the idea that the two men who fought would, had they in other circumstances met each other outside a pub, have enjoyed a few drinks ('right many a nipperkin') together. Yet it becomes clear in the second stanza that they in fact met as foot soldiers on opposing sides in a battle, and being confronted with each other, one had to die. The two men shot at each other, and the narrator's shot fatally injured the other man.