what is the message on the poem after blenhiem by robery southney
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"After Blenheim" is an anti war poem which was written by an English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. It conveys the message of futility of war. The battle is not described directly. It is through the conversation between an old farmer and his grandchildren that it becomes known that the setting is a former battleground. Peterkin finds something 'large and round', so his grandfather explains that it is a skull, and many of them could be found in the earth nearby. He says that it is some poor fellow's skull who fell in the great victory.
The poem 'After Blenheim' is an anti-war peom.The poet through this peom wants to convey us how meaningless wars are and how unnecessarily everything is lost by everybody, yet after the battle everyone used to praise only the victory of it and forget all about the sacrifices and suffering..