Violence
By Hollywood standards, "The Man He Killed" isn't that violent, and that is the real power of the poem. While the speaker entertains the idea of meeting the other man in a different context, he doe...
Identity
Both the speaker and the dead man enlisted in opposite armies, but there's no difference between the two… well, except that one is alive and the other is pushing up daisies. That aside, the idea...
Em Dashes
Yep, you read that right. While Shmoop may not be the world's foremost punctuation experts (although we stand by our oxford commas with the conviction of… convicted people), we couldn't resist ta...