The Charge Of The Light Bigade And Exposure

Question 1

Exposure: personification

Answer 1

Exposure uses personification to intimidate us with phrases like “merciless iced east winds” and “the winds nonchalance”- this gives impression that weather is angry

Question 2

Light brigade : personification

Answer 2

Uses personification to stir up emotions and keep reader on edge for the heroes he writes about by saying they are going into the “jaws of death” and “mouth of hell”

Question 3

Light brigade introduction

Answer 3

Fast moving poem made up of 6 stanzas with rhyming in each. Poem describes the advancing of soldiers in the Crimean war. Tennyson was a laureate (countries official poet )

Question 4

Exposure introduction

Answer 4

Poem written about first hand experience in ww1 in winter by Wilfred Owen . More depressing looks on the non-heroic side of war. Focuses on conflict between man and weather, nature always wins . Poem has 8 stanzas with a constant uses of half line to end

Question 5

Exposure “but nothing happens”

Answer 5

This short simple half line is repeated to emphasise their boredom and creates tension

Question 6

Exposure “for love of god seems dying”

Answer 6

Could mean their love of god is fading and disappearing or that god disagrees with what they are doing and that he doesn’t support or love them anymore

Question 7

Sibilance

Answer 7

Light brigade- “storm’d at with shot and shell” could show swiftness of war
Exposure- “ sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence” mimics the sound of the bullets

Question 8

Light brigade “All in the valley of Death”

Answer 8

illuding to bible verse about entering hell , connotations of evil , sets the scene visual imagery. Capital d shows importance of death throughout poem

Question 9

Charge of the light brigade verbs

Answer 9

Verbs are used to indicate the energy, drama and excitement of the charge

Question 10

Exposure Ellipses,caesuras and repetition

Answer 10

Create ongoing sense of waiting and boredom

Question 11

Exposure “Confuse our memory of the salient”

Answer 11

Salient is a twisting and winding tunnel - he feels trapped with his memories and cannot get away like he is Ina maze , memories are his enemies

Question 12

Exposure “shivering ranks of grey”

Answer 12

No colour the battlefield is cold and lifeless. Grey was the colour of German uniform so this aligns nature with enemy

Question 13

Exposure “black with snow”

Answer 13

Snow is normally white (pure) but here it is black (evil,death)