Thomas Hardy's "Drummer Hodge" and the Loss of Home

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English - March 17, 2018 17:18
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Thomas Hardy wrote this poem in 1899, just after the start of the Boer War. It is one of a number of poems written in response to that war.

This interpretation considers the importance of the idea of home with regard to Hodge's fate.

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