Charge Of The Light Brigade, Exposure, Storm Of The Island Flashcards
Sounds sinister forshadows shomething bad may happen
Valley Of Death
Rhyme and repetitive emphases the soldiers obedience and sense of duty eventhough they might die
Theirs to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die
Images personify death and hell. Soldiers are scared but brave enough to charge
Jaws of death into the mouth of hell
all the soldiers realized that their commander had made a terrible mistake
Someone had blunder’d
praises the bravery and nobility of the soldiers
Noble six hundred
Collective pronoun to show that they are all in this together experiencing the terrible pain of suffering
Our brain ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
Short simple half line to emphasise the boredom and tension. War isnt always about action
But nothing happens
Half rhyme creates a line of them how in a dream
Forgotten dreams, and stare, snow dazed
People are still dying, men feel forgotten and lost
We turn back to our dying
Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew
Sudden successtive flights of bullets streak the silence
pretty confident first line.
We are prepared
shows it is unpleasant and uncontrollable.
Spits like a tame cat/ turned savage
Oxymoron, destroys but is seen as natual
Exploding comfortably
Cant go anywhere, cant do anything, intoxicated away
But there are no trees, no natual shelter
as if they are being attacked by an invisible army with invisible bullets. The final thought is how strange it is that what we fear is a ‘huge nothing’; the storm is invisible, yet it causes so much fear in us.
We are bombarded by the empty air
