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treasure trove 9 volume 1 poem after blenheim passage2​

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Answered by sahistajawed
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Answer: AFTER BLENHEIM--------------------Written by--> Robert Southey

Explanation:

2nd passage

   

She saw her brother Peterkin

Roll something large and round,

   Which he beside the rivulet

In playing there had found ;

He came to ask what he had found,

That was  so large, and smooth and round.

EXPLANATION

Wilhelmine [sister of Peterkin} saw her brother roll a skull which he{Peterkin]had found beside the stream when he was playing beside that stream.

He[Peterkin] wanted to know from his grandfather {Kaspar} that what it was.

RELATED INFORMATION

After Blenhim is  an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey. The poem is set at the site of Battle of Blenheim, with the question of two small children [ wilhelmine  and Peterkin] about a skull which Peterkin has found. Their grandfather[kaspar] tells them of burned homes, civilian casualities and rotting corpses.

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