First Hand Conflict - Charge Of Light

Question 1

Name of metre used in this poem

Answer 1

Dactylic metre - shows the noise of the horses moving and how they all went together (unified) into a horrible plan

Question 2

What is the only voice heard

Answer 2

Voice of the general - silence of the soldiers who are going out to be slaughteres

Question 3

3 examples of repetition

Answer 3

“Cannon”- to emphasise the carnage being caused. “Six hundred” to show how many lifes was at stake with one generals command. “Into the valley of death” shows the soldiers worthlesness.

Question 4

Biblical reference of into valley of death

Answer 4

“I will fear no evil” - shows the strength and bravery which the soldiers had going into this “valley

Question 5

Metaphors for british soldiers helplesness

Answer 5

“Into the mouth of hell” “into the jaws of death” - metaphors with the semantic field of death.

Question 6

Primary aim of the poem

Answer 6

Ambiguity of all the “world wonder’d” “wondered” as in ‘gaze’ or questioning the decision shows a split of how people viewed giving up our soldiers