The central idea of the poem is friendship. The persona almost yearns for his foe to have been a friend, someone whom he could have had an intimate connection with and share drinks and a laugh. The Man He Killed Summary
The central idea of the poem is friendship. The persona almost yearns for his foe to have been a friend, someone whom he could have had an intimate connection with and share drinks and a laugh.
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This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows: Apostrophe: The persona’s ‘foe’ or ‘he’, is constantly mentioned in the poem even though he was not present, making it an apostrophe. Alliteration: A couple of examples would be ‘Had he’ and ‘face to face’. Enjambment: The linRead more
This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows:
The Man He Killed Summary