1. Explain the differences between explication, analysis, and interpretation. The main difference between an explication, analysis, and an interpretation is that each focuses on a different way of analyzing a story. An explication is when one go line by line to analyze and interpret. Each line is looked at on its own to determine the overall meaning. An analysis is when one look at a work compared to a literary element. For example, if a story includes an extended metaphor, a person can use this to help explain how it affects the meaning of the story. An interpretation is explaining what one, the writer, believe the story’s meaning is. Evidence from throughout the whole story should be used to support it.
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In the last stanza of “The Man He Killed,” what attitudes towards war does the speaker express? What, from the evidence of this poem, would you infer Hardy’s attitude toward war to be? Cite evidence from the poem. (pg 205) In the last stanza of “The Man He Killed,” the speaker tells us he thinks the war is strange, unusual, and pointless. In the last stanza, Hardy states, “Yes; quaint and curious war is! / You shoot a fellow down / You’d treat if met where any bar is” (17-19). From this, we can gather that the speaker doesn’t see the point of war because people are just killing other people that any other time they would have drinks with at the bar. Earlier on in the poem, it says, “I shot him dead because - / Because he was my foe” (9-10). In these lines, we can see that Hardy doesn’t see the point in killing. People only kill because they are told that this person is their foe, not because they actually want to kill. The third stanza says, “Was out of work - has sold his traps - / No other reason why” (15-16). Both men that are fighting are just doing their job because they need the work, not because they are passionate about the fight. This shows that both the speaker of the story and Hardy don’t find war as something purposeful but just something people do because it’s their
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In the last stanza of “The Man He Killed,” what attitudes towards war does the speaker express? What, from the evidence of this poem, would you infer Hardy’s attitude toward war to be? Cite evidence from the poem. (pg 205) In the last stanza of “The Man He Killed,” the speaker tells us he thinks the war is strange, unusual, and pointless. In the last stanza, Hardy states, “Yes; quaint and curious war is! / You shoot a fellow down / You’d treat if met where any bar is” (17-19). From this, we can gather that the speaker doesn’t see the point of war because people are just killing other people that any other time they would have drinks with at the bar. Earlier on in the poem, it says, “I shot him dead because - / Because he was my foe” (9-10). In these lines, we can see that Hardy doesn’t see the point in killing. People only kill because they are told that this person is their foe, not because they actually want to kill. The third stanza says, “Was out of work - has sold his traps - / No other reason why” (15-16). Both men that are fighting are just doing their job because they need the work, not because they are passionate about the fight. This shows that both the speaker of the story and Hardy don’t find war as something purposeful but just something people do because it’s their