Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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- Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Emotions
- negative views on the light brigade
- honour
- suffering
- lack of control and a lack of power
- heroic actions
- Conflicts
- soldiers are vulnerable
- people in control have the power
- power of humans
- power of war
- power of conflicts and violence
- Form and Structure
- equal stanza lengths apart from the last
- rhymes
- no enjambment or caesura
- repetition of lines in stanzas
- rhyme is irregular- unpredictability of war
- Language
- rhetorical questions
- war language and imagery
- alliteration
- "storm'd at with shot and shell"
- "when can their glory fade?"
- "cannon to the right of them... cannon to the left of them"
- "half a league, half a league, half a league onward"
- Context
- born in 1809
- he was good at making short lyrics
- poem is about the cavalry charge during the 1854 battle of Balaclava
- Crimean war
- he had noble and royal ancestry
- middle class family
- wrote poetry on many different subjects
- Past and Present
- how to cavalry charge was pointless but the leaders didn't believe it
- now it is obvious that the charge was a mistake
- they were charging into death
- it was swords vs guns
- now people would bever do that beause it is stupid
- Emotions
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