do you agree that the poet celebrates war ? do you think it was a famous victory
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After Blenheim is a poem romanticizing war.
The poet here glorifies war and thus signifies the theme that power is mighty and not emotions.
Justice is the birthright of only the powerful people.
War shows that the fittest survive while the poor ones are left to perish on the battlefield until they ultimately succumb and die.
The old man in the poem celebrates war and declare it an outcome for a noble cause.
When the kids brought him a skull, rather than getting astonished and inquisitive, he was calm and composed.
He tells the kids now that he has often found such pieces of bones and skulls while ploughing the field and it is nothing to be sad or be anxious about.
War is fought for the country and signifies patriotism is thus must be celebrated even if innocent lives are a loss.
That is indeed a small price paid for the love for the country.