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In the chosen poems, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, and
Sigfried Sassoon each have a common viewpoint: war brings out
the worst in man, a feeling buried deep inside the heart. Even
with this clotting of the mind due to the twisting ways of war, a
flicker of remorse, a dream of someplace, something else still
exists within the rational thought. These poems express hope, the
hope that war will not be necessary. They show that man only kills
because he must, not because of some inbred passion for death.
These three authors express this viewpoint in their own ways in
their poems: “The Man He Killed”, “Reconciliation”, and “Dreamers”.
In The Man He Killed, Hardy speaks about the absurdity of
war. He gives a narrative of how he kills a “foe”, and that this
“foe” could be a friend if they met “by some old ancient inn”,
instead of the battlefield. Hardy says “…quaint and curious war
is…you shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar
is…” In this Hardy speaks how war twists the mind, and also makes
you kill people you have no personal vendetta against.
In Reconciliation, Whitman shows the devastation of war. In
a war, you kill someone and even if you win, you lose. Whitman
describes a man mourning over the death of his foe. He rejoices
over the ultimate death of war “Beautiful that war and all its
deeds of carnage must…be utterly lost.” He also feels great
remorse over his so called enemy’s death “For my enemy…a man
divine as myself is dead.” He then shows his love for the enemy
“I…bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
coffin.” He shows war twisting the mind of a soldier who then
deeply regretted his actions.
In Dreamers, Sassoon shows the soldiers dreaming of heavenly
places, while at the same time they are at war. Yet these heavenly
places are things we take for granted everyday, such as “clean
beds”, “picture shows”, or “firelit homes”. These men have learned
to appreciate them, and now are their everyday dreams, while they
are in “foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats, and in the ruined trenches,
lashed with rain”. There isn’t hate in this poem usually associated
with war, there is a common dream among all soldiers fearing their
life.
In these poems we see a common thread, the distortion of the
mind, through war. In The Man He Killed, we see Hardy’s view of war
twisting the mind and forcing soldiers to kill men they have no
personal vendetta against. In Reconciliation, we see Whitman’s
view of soldiers’ minds being twisted in order to achieve an
apparent win, but in reality both sides have lost. In Dreamers, we
see Sassoon’s view of the common soldier dreaming of places where
they’d rather be, rather than fearing their life with every step
they take. In this we see the common theme of war twisting and
distorting the minds of those involved as well as a dream of these
soldiers forced to kill against their personal will but because
they must.