similarities between old man at bridge and after blenheim
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In the poem After Blenheim and the story Old man at the bridge, they both are based on respect towards nation and social duty.
The old man in Southey’s poem ‘After Blenheim’ is Old Kaspar, who was a mansuffering much in the hands of warmongers during the Battle of Blenheim.
He is a representative of the common stereotype people who glorify war without a reason and had two grandchildren Wilhelmine and her brother Peterkin who were the representatives of a new generation who try to question everything.
They ask their grandfather why he thinks the war to be ‘great’ and ‘famous’.
The old man in Southey’s poem ‘After Blenheim’ is Old Kaspar, who was a mansuffering much in the hands of warmongers during the Battle of Blenheim.
He is a representative of the common stereotype people who glorify war without a reason and had two grandchildren Wilhelmine and her brother Peterkin who were the representatives of a new generation who try to question everything.
They ask their grandfather why he thinks the war to be ‘great’ and ‘famous’.
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