Poetry: Charge Of The Light Brigade(Alfred Lord Tennyson) Flashcards
What are the three overarching concepts?
- reality of conflict
- effects of conflict
- glorifying war
Effects of conflict plan:
“Into the valley of death”-proleptic irony,metaphor+ emotive language,patrionism(death)
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”-sibilance(death)
“Rode the six hundred”+”not the six hundred”-epistrophe(men have died)
“Jaws of death”-zoomorphism
Reality of conflict:
“Half a league” epistrophe+anaphora -shows how much distance is covered in war
“Cannon(right, left, in front of them) anaphora-implies they are surrounded(no way out)
“Into the mouth of hell”-personification(shows how bad the situation is)
Glorifying war plan:
“Honour”-anaphora
“When can their glory fade”rhetorical question
“Noble six hundred”-refrain repetition+adjective
Describe the structure:
- rythmn creates momentumn
- third person narrative
- repetition”-unstoppable charge and inevitability of outcome
No rhyme for hundred-emphasises
Metonymy” six hundred”
- heroic language
- violent language
Patrionism
Describe the context?
-became poet Laureate(given position to glorify war to British public)
Crimean war: Russian V ottoman-Britan gets involved to stop Russian expansion
