treasure trove 9 volume 1 poem after blenheim passage2
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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.