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प्रश्न
Later, too, the old man uses the expression famous victory? Why?
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उत्तर
Old Kasper continuously repeats this sentence as this is all he knows about the war. Although it is constantly mentioned that it was a great victory this is not what the poem is saying. Southey is using this phrase to emphasise the exact opposite, that it wasn’t a great victory.
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