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Later, Too, the Old Man Uses the Expression Famous Victory? Why?

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Later, too, the old man uses the expression famous victory? Why?

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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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