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Critical analysis of the poem's "The Man He Killed" and "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner".
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Lloyd Johnson 11/10/04 Atwood 12:00 The thin line of war In the poem "The Man He Killed" and "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", the realness of war is revealed. These poems are similar, but yet expressing different concepts. Through these poems moral and political ideas are expressed. In the Poem "The Man He Killed" Thomas Hardy shows us the gruesomeness of war. As the poem starts, the narrator explains to us that if he and his enemy would have met before this battle, he probably would have sat down and had a drink with him like a normal person. Seeing that his situation is different the narrator has to react accordingly. The narrator makes it clear that he can't show any sympathy to his enemy because he is at war and a part of an infantry designed to kill the enemy. He also can't show...
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