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Essay Archive - In Poems "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", and "Dreamers", the Authors Show That Man Kills Because He Must
In Poems "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", and "Dreamers", the Authors Show
That Man Kills Because He Must
In the chosen poems, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, and Sigfried Sassoon
each have a common viewpoint: war brings out the worst in man, a feeling buried
deep inside the heart. Even with this clotting of the mind due to the twisting
ways of war, a flicker of remorse, a dream of someplace, something else still
exists within the rational thought. These poems express hope, the hope that war
will not be necessary. They show that man only k....
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