Comment on the contrasted view points in the poem after blenheim?
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The poem 'After Blenheim' is an anti-war peom. The poet through this peom wants to convey us how meaningless wars are and how unnecessarily everything is lost by everybody, yet after the battle everyone used to praise only the victory of it and forget all about the sacrifices and suffering..
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Old Kaspar, who is the speaker in this poem, describes the horrible consequences of the war fought there. He even tells his grandchildren how his own family was affected and forced to migrate elsewhere in the aftermath of ‘that’ war. This is reinforced by the opinion of his little granddaughter who refers to war as something ‘wicked’. Despite all this, the speaker admires Duke Marlbro and Prince Eugene who led the winning side in the war. Moreover, he frequently refers to the war as ‘a famous victory’.