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The Man He Killed, , “Had he and I but met, , By some old ancient inn,, We should have sat us down to wet mena, , Right many a nipperkin! nipperkin: small glass of beer, infantry: an army unit consisting of, soldiers who fight on foot, , “But ranged as infantry, foe: enemy, , ‘fist: enlist, join the army, , traps: trappings, belongings,, , Tshot at him as he at me, particitarly tools, , quaint: peculiar, , Half-a-crown: a coin, old British, , currency, , , , And staring face to face,, , And killed him in his place., , {shot him dead because —, Because he was my foe,, Just so: my foe of course he was;, , That's clear enough; although, , “He thought he'd ‘list, perhaps,, Off-hand like — just as 1 —, Was out of work — had sold his traps —, , No other reason why., , “Yes; quaint and curious war is!, You shoot a fellow down, You'd treat if met where any bar is,, , Or help to half-a-crown.”
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About the Poet, , , , Thomas Hardy inherited from his father a love for music and from his mother a love, for reading. His formal education ended when he was sixteen since his family could, not afford to send him to university. He was apprenticed to a local architect. Besides, poetry, Thomas Hardy is famous for his novels like ‘Far from the Madding Crowd,, “The Mayor of Casterbridge’ and ‘Tess of the d'Urbervilles’. He was nominated, eleven times for the Nobel Prize in Literature., , War poetry is an expression of a poet's feelings towards war. Some may glorify it, while others may comment on its futility. A war poet can be a participant in a war, who writes about his experiences, or a non-combatant who writes poems about war., War poems can be traced back to Homer's ‘Iliad’ written in the 8th c. BCE. Thomas, , , , , , Hardy wrote significant war poems relating to the Napoleonic Wars, the Boer Wars, and World War I. His work influenced other war poets such as Rupert Brooke and, Siegfried Sassoon., , e, Kec Re, 2 1. Read the given extracts and answer the following questions., = a) Had he and I but met, , By some old ancient inn,, We should have sat us down to wet, Right many a nipperkin!, i) Who does ‘he’ refer to the above lines? What did the narrator have to do?, ii) Why did the narrator wish he had met ‘the man he killed’ by an old inn?, ili) What could have happened if the two men had met at an old, ancient inn?, , iv) Find a word from the extract which means the same as ‘belonging to the very, distant past’., , ZZ
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b) ‘Tshot him dead because —, Because he was my foe,, Just so: my foe of course he was;, That's clear enough; although., i) How does the narrator justify his act of killing the other man?, ii) Why is the narrator not convinced that the man he killed was his enemy?, iii) What does the narrator mean by the word ‘although’ at the end of the stanza?, iv) Find a word from the extract which is the opposite of ‘friend’, , 2. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words., , a) Whats the purpose of the title of the poem ‘The Man He Killed’ being in the third, person and the poem in the first person?, , b) What are two things the speaker would have done for the man had they not been, at war?, , ©) What do the two men -the man who killed and the man who was killed — have in, common?, , d) ‘Chance favours the few." Justify with reference to the poem., , e) What tells us that the narrator is uncomfortable with his actions?, , 3. Answer the following questions in 100-120 words., a) Why does the poet think that war is quaint and curious?, b) What feeling does this poem arouse in you about war and why?, , ©) How has Thomas Hardy explored the theme of conflict in the poem The Man He, Killec?, , d) Do you think the man the speaker killed was really the speaker's foe? Why or why, not?, , 4, Use the dictionary to find the difference in meaning of the following words., , a) fight, , b) duel, , ©) battle, d) war, , e) combat, , = ———————————————————, 52 =
