Poetry 2

Question 1

charge of light brigade quote 1

Answer 1

half a league, half a league,/half a league onward,

Question 2

charge of the light brigade quote 2

Answer 2

some one had blundered:/Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why,…/rode the six hundred

Question 3

charge of the light brigade quote 3

Answer 3

While horse and hero fell,/they that had fought so well

Question 4

charge of the light brigade structure

Answer 4

-irregular stanza length to unsettle the reader, chaos mimicks how the soldiers were being shot at by an enemy they could not fairly counter and tennyson is restricted to counter opinions of those in power
-rhyming couplets between indented lines create repetitive inevitability, outcome of charge decided beforehand
-dactylic dimeter mimics sound of galloping into battle
-each stanza ends with end stop fate finalised

Question 5

charge of the light brigade context

Answer 5

-tennyson bound into making criticisms of british aristocracy and glorifying british war effort
-based on battle of balaclava during crimean war
-a charge made headfirst into enemy guns due to communication error
-war effort unpopular with public as light brigade consisted of lower class