What are the ages of Old Kaspar and his two grandchildren in the poem of After Bleinheim?
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The old man in Southey’s poem ‘After Blenheim’ is Old Kaspar, a man who had suffered 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. He is someone who wants to stick to the old ideals.
With Kaspar were his two grandchildren — Wilhelmine and her brother Peterkin — 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 grandfather was sitting before his cottage door, in the sun, as his work for the day was over. The two children were playing in the green field beside him.
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Kaspar was telling his grandkids Wilhelmine and Peterkin about the skull, from where it came. He told them that thousands of such skulls were around and under the field near by. These skulls were of the men who were killed during the war and their dead bodies were left to rot in the open.