Question

give the background of the poem After blenhim

Answer 1

Hey!! the poem After Blenheim is an anti war poem set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim written from the perspectives of small children questioning about a skull one had found. An old man tells two small children of burned homes, civilian casualties, and rotting corpses, while repeatedly calling it "a famous victory". Anything more? Happy to help

Answer 2

Answer:

the theme and the message of the poem of after blenhim

Explanation:

Southey’s poem After Blenheim is an anti-war poem. He is ironic here to present the fact that people in general glorify war and war-heroes without knowing what good it does to mankind or why a victory is called ‘great’ or ‘famous’.

In the poem we see that Old Kaspar repeatedly mentions the Battle of Blenheim as a great and famous victory but he does not know the reason. He has a romantic view of war even after receiving the sufferings himself during the war and after thousands of killings. This is all about the hollow romantic ideals regarding war that warmongers have created very carefully in people’s minds. Southey’s poem is a protest against the heroic ideals of war.

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