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'Drummer Hodge' by Thomas Hardy describes the burial of an English soldier in the Boer War.
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'Drummer Hodge' by Thomas Hardy describes the burial of an English soldier in the Boer War. Drummers were usually the very youngest of soldiers and were considered to be too young to fight. This instantly sets a very sombre tone as the reader realises the soldier was very young when he died. The word 'Hodge' is used to describe him and was once used as a derogatory term for a farm labourer however Hardy means no disrespect as he has openly showed his admiration for countrymen. This term is merely one of many techniques used to emphasis how foreign the Drummer is. 'A Dead Boche' by Robert Graves describes an encounter with a dead "Boche"; the word boche was an offensive term for a German. These two poems are instantly different as one is written about a fellow Englishman whilst the other is written about an enemy. The...
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