ELA Mini PBAT 1 Newaz Sharif
Newaz Sharif
English PBAT
“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.”
— Thomas Hardy One of the most renowned poets and and novelists in English literary history, Thomas
Hardy wrote this poem called “The Man he Killed” which focused on the senselessness of war.
The poem takes the viewpoint of a soldier who had killed a man in battle. He describes that if he were in different circumstances with the man he had killed, outside of war, things could have been different. Although written in 1902, this poem relates to soldiers fighting in wars all throughout time. War is more than just a battle between opposing sides — it can be a psychological breakdown for those who fight it. In war, many times a soldier is forced to fight an internal battle against themselves to determine where they stand in righteousness. In The Things
They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the characters Azar and Kiowa symbolize the shoulder devil and angel of Tim O’Brien and depict the inner conflict he faces after killing a man in Vietnam because both have personalities completely different from one another and try to justify actions and have different perspectives of the war they are in.
The author characterizes Kiowa as free spirited and joyous while characterizing Azar as cruel and wicked. As Tim O’Brien recalls events in the war, he starts off by telling us about short stories to show the “sweetness” of the Vietnam War in the chapter “Spin”. He recalls, “Kiowa teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them whooping and leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a
English PBAT
“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.”
— Thomas Hardy One of the most renowned poets and and novelists in English literary history, Thomas
Hardy wrote this poem called “The Man he Killed” which focused on the senselessness of war.
The poem takes the viewpoint of a soldier who had killed a man in battle. He describes that if he were in different circumstances with the man he had killed, outside of war, things could have been different. Although written in 1902, this poem relates to soldiers fighting in wars all throughout time. War is more than just a battle between opposing sides — it can be a psychological breakdown for those who fight it. In war, many times a soldier is forced to fight an internal battle against themselves to determine where they stand in righteousness. In The Things
They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the characters Azar and Kiowa symbolize the shoulder devil and angel of Tim O’Brien and depict the inner conflict he faces after killing a man in Vietnam because both have personalities completely different from one another and try to justify actions and have different perspectives of the war they are in.
The author characterizes Kiowa as free spirited and joyous while characterizing Azar as cruel and wicked. As Tim O’Brien recalls events in the war, he starts off by telling us about short stories to show the “sweetness” of the Vietnam War in the chapter “Spin”. He recalls, “Kiowa teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them whooping and leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a