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The Man He Killed

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The Man He Killed

The Man He Killed. Thomas Hardy. Hardy reduces a killing on the battlefield simply to two innocent young men who have arrived at their present circumstances by trying to do the right thing. The narrator does not condemn the two young men in the poem for attempting to kill each other.

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The Man He Killed

Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set 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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