Thomas Hardy's "Drummer Hodge" and the Loss of Home
Channel: English Readings
Date: 2018-03-17

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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