Question

What does the common man's attitude towards the war

Answer 1

Robert Southey has brilliantly conveyed a common man’s perspective of war in his poem ‘After Blenheim’. Here Old Kaspar represents the common people who holds an idealistic view of war. He believes that war is all about heroism and patriotism. Though a lot of lives and property were lost in the Battle of Blenheim, it is still a ‘great’ and ‘famous’ victory to Kaspar. We hear him say