Charge of the Light Brigade
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- Created on: 26-07-19 11:59
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- Charge of the Light Brigade
- Metaphor "All in the valley of death"
- A valley is restricted - start to end
- A valley is green, lush and peaceful
- Its now gloomy, forbidding and without hope
- The transformati-on from idealistic to negative is designed to shock a British reader
- The valley is now intending to take life, as opposed to produce life
- We now imagine scavengers, corpses and bones
- Contrast between inner feeling and their forced patriotism
- Personification "Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell"
- It emphasises their sacrifice because they are willingly approaching death
- Death is inevitable - no escape when the jaws close
- The jaws are the jaws of a predator/ supernatural being
- Death will be agonising and slow
- Their suffering will be eternal- no rest from the torment
- They ride into the bowels of hell to be consumed
- You feel sympathy for then- no redemption
- Fires of hell- symbolic of the cannon fire
- Sounds of hell- cannon fire, blood and screams
- Rhetorical Question "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered."
- The poet encourages the reader to remember the sacrifice of the soldiers
- It's his duty to do this- patriotism
- It also disguises the blunder made by the generals
- It shows different perspectives of war- they were heros, but also conflicts futile
- Few survivors
- Repetition "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die"
- The soldiers lack a definite identity- simply casualties of war
- The rhythm reminds us of hoofbeats of the horses the men get closer to their deaths
- The commanding tone created by the rhyme emphasises the vulnerability/ silence of the soldiers
- The sequence of rhyming vocabulary reminds us that death is inevitable.
- Divisions between generals giving orders and the soldiers who were in the heat of battle
- Metaphor "All in the valley of death"
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