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In “The Man He Killed” presents the idea of war as its power could change one
another. The circumstance shows that poet had shot a man whom he met in a war and
so did the man had shot him, but he was the one who survives. After the situation in
the war, the poet starts questioning himself whether the thing he had done was right.
There is a used of imaginary technique to clarify the situation when he confronted the
man he killed as we can see from the second stanza, “staring face to face”. Also, the
third stanza shows that he stops to justify himself about the reason that he killed that
man. At first, he gives a reason because that man was his enemy. He also emphasizes
his thought that he was right as we can see in line eleven. However, in the fourth
stanza he starts to realize that the man he killed might come to the war because of the
work problem just like him. No one should have been killed. Thus, he got haunted
from what he had done and kept talking about this man from the beginning of the first
stanza. The poet describes a situation by using if clause which suggests that the events
should have been better if he met the man he killed in the bar. In addition, he
emphasizes the theme in the last stanza that “Yes; quaint and curious war is!” and
continues to repeat his thought like a maniac that it should have been better.