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James

You are most welcome

Nina

[Guest_Nina_*]

Hi James

My post obviously didn't come across as I wanted it to  (well it was late and I was tired).  

There is no suggestion he was especially wicked, heartless, brutal nor inhumane (interesting concept for a bird)  nor took any pleasure in the killing
I didn't mean to suggest your poor persecuted pheasant was any of those.  In fact in my post I said:

My feeling is that your pheasant had a need to turn to violence and shoot his attackers

I wasn't trying to compare your pheasant with Cathy's Knight, though you read it as such.  

I was looking at a notion of someone in their fight for survival being driven to go much further than is necessary for self preservation, which is what Cathy implies in her tale (or that is how it appears to me).  

Also in my mind was the question of when the underdog has the upperhand and the power is his, will he abuse it or not?

With regard to war.  With the exception of trying to stop the evil of the Nazis in world war 2 which was totally justified (I probably wouldn't be sitting here talking to you if Hitler had succeeded), most wars are a fight for power and control.

Well, those were the weird wonderings of my mind after reading your poem, so I will shut up now and go and cook the tea.

Nina