Andrew's Wiki
The General

Content

• The General smiles to the soldiers but it’s his incompetence that kills them
• “But he did for them both by his plan of attack.” That’s the last line. It really encapsulates his method of juxtaposition: it’s one line, but it refers to a contradiction w/something established in the first part of the poem.
  • Conflict thematized

Form

• Six lines; then a break (marked by ellipses); then a final line