'The Man He Killed' By Thomas Hardy

The narrator's overall attitude changes from the first quatrain to the fourth quatrain. Thomas Hardy, the author, reveals this change very subtly. In the poem, “The Man He Killed,” the main character is fighting a war. He meets a man, and is forced to kill him because he is on the opposite side of the war. But later in the poem he wishes he could have met the person in a different environment, not during the war. The story starts off with our narrator stating that he wishes it was a different time. This is because currently there is a war going on, and he is forced to kill a man he does not even know.
In the first quatrain the narrator states that he wishes he met this man in an inn, instead of during the war. The author very subtle about