Sir's Quotes (Light Brigade, Exposure, Storm on the Island) Flashcards
Place of suffering
“Valley of death”
Follow orders
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
Sinister forshadows death in light brigade
“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”
Mistakes have been made
“someone had blunder’d”
How is the brigade remembered
“Noble six hundred”
Start of Exposure
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
End of 1st and last stanza
“But nothing happens”
About their memories in exposure
“forgotten dreams, and stare,
snow-dazed”
“What are they doing there?”
“we turn back to our dying”
Sibilance picking up the pace of the poem
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Start of Storm of the Island
“We are prepared”
Describing the storm
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
Alliteration…
How is the sea treating the coastline?
“exploding comfortably”
Oxymoron
How can they hide storm on islands
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
What are they being attacked by?
“We are bombarded by the empty air”
