Question

How common were the skulls there? At which place many of them could be found?

Answer 1

Answer:

In Southey’s poem “After Blenheim”, the skulls of the dead soldiers are presented to bring out the pity of war. Here the skulls are all common — ‘large and smooth and round’ — as the poet repeats it in the second stanza. It has been many years since the battle was fought there and the skulls are worn out by the forces of nature and thus made to look similar. All are now smooth and round.