Question

What, according to the poet, are the consequences that are often associated with great and famous victories? What message does the poet want to convey to the readers through the poem

Answer 1

Answer:

Southey’s poem After Blenheim is an anti-war poem. He is ironic here to present the fact that people in general glorify war and war-heroes without knowing what good it does to mankind or why a victory is called ‘great’ or ‘famous’.

In the poem we see that Old Kaspar repeatedly mentions the Battle of Blenheim as a great and famous victory but he does not know the reason. He has a romantic view of war even after receiving the sufferings himself during the war and after thousands of killings. This is all about the hollow romantic ideals regarding war that warmongers have created very carefully in people’s minds. Southey’s poem is a protest against the heroic ideals of war.

So, if you want a one-liner as a moral of the poem, here it is — “War can never be great.”

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Answer 2

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Explanation:

According to the poet,war. is destructive and horrible.It brings miseries,sufferings and disorder in life.The poet brings out the horrors of war in a simple but ironic way.The young children fail to understand in the poem 'After Blenheim ' how the war which created so much havoc could be a great and famous war.