Question

How does Robert Southey bring out the pity of war in the poem 'After Blenheim'

Answer 1

‘After Blenheim’ tells the horrors of war, between the English and the French. An old man by the name of Kaspar explains to his grandson – Wilhelmine, who had found a skull by a small stream, how the armies burned down houses and killed people by the thousands. Even little babies were not spared. The dead bodies were left to rot in the fields, presenting a gory sight.

Robert Southey (1774 – 1843) was an English poet laureate, who mainly wrote romantic poems.