The Man He Killed, By Thomas Hardy

Research Paper Thomas Hardy is a novelist, a poet, a writer and much more he has been a very huge influence on British liturature. Hardy was influenced by the Romantism period and looked up to both Charles Dickens and William Wordworth. Like Dickens, he was very much critical of the Victorian Society. Hardy was born June 2, 1840 in the village of Upper Bockhampton. Thomas Hardy was more of a poet than a novelist. I am focusing more on Hardy’s poems where he uses irony, imagery, and dialect but they all show humor in the poems. Thomas Hardy’s poems “The Man He Killed,” “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” and “The Ruined Maid” all include irony, imagery, and dialect, all of which help the author be humorous. In the poem “The Man
He Killed” Thomas Hardy uses irony in this peom by saying"He and I but met/ By some old ancient inn/ We should have sat us down to wet/ Right many a nipperkin!" (Hardy) what he is saying is that he could have had a drink with the the guy that he was fighting but since they are enemies they cannot. Hardy was saying in the poem that they had so much in common and he probably would have helped they guy out or buy the guy a drink at the bar but since they were on the opposite side of the line they couldn’t be friends. “Yet; 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.” (