The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

Describing the valley

Answer 1

“Valley of death”

Question 2

Showing the role of a soldier

Answer 2

“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”

Question 3

Showing death

Answer 3

“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”

Question 4

There had been a mistake

Answer 4

“someone had blunder’d”

Question 5

Describing the soldiers as positive and brave

Answer 5

“Noble six hundred”

Question 6

What is the name of the poet?

Answer 6

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 7

What was the poets role?

Answer 7

He was a victorian poet Laurrette

Question 8

Describe the poem?

Answer 8

He was originaly from the middle class, he was forced to write about the battle because newspapers were saying that it was a blunder

Question 9

How could the poem be interpretated as?

Answer 9

Showing thr braveness of the soldiers

Demonstrating the incapibility of the army structure (leaders)

Question 10

Describe the strucuture of the poem?

Answer 10

In dadlylic diameter - sounds like a horse running, this makes the reader feel like they were there. Some symbols are also emphasised to emphasise the sound of a horce galoping

It is a ballard and has a regular rhythm which sounds like a horse galoping

It describes the battle in chronological order whilst the final stanza is shorter and summerises the battle

Use of repotition creates a feeling of impending doom however heroic language presents the soldiers as heros

There are 6 stanzas each representing 100 soldiers

Question 11

What repetition shows how they are 1 unit?

Answer 11

At the end each stanza ends in ““six hundred”

Question 12

Feelings and attitudes

Answer 12

Admiration - of the soldiers bravery
Patriotism - describes men following orders to their death
Horror - there’s suggestions that the narrator is horrified by the violence of the battle

Question 13

Start of the poem sugesting that the men are unstoppabke because of the Dadlyic diamiter

Question 14

Showing they have no freedom

Answer 14

“Rode the six hundred”

Question 15

Shwoing how they have no individual thoughts

Answer 15

“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:

Question 16

Biblical reference

Answer 16

“Valley of death”

Question 17

Things being fired at them

Answer 17

“Shot and shell”

The sibilance emophasises this

Question 18

Creating powerful imagry of people charging to their death

Answer 18

“Flash’d all their sabres bare

Flash’d as they turn’d in air”

Question 19

Quote sounding vicios and like gunfire

Answer 19

“Sabre-stroke

Shatter’e and sunder’d”

Question 20

Rhetorical question sounding like a dare?

Answer 20

“When can their glory fade?

O the wild charge they made!”

Question 21

A line which is not in dadylic diamiter

Answer 21

“Some one had blunder’d”

Emphasising someone made a blunder (higher class)

Question 22

Repetition of the d sound showing the pace of the battle

Explain more

Answer 22

“Wonder’d”“shatter’d”“sunder’d”“thunder’d”“blunder’d”

It shows the pace of the battle

The “erred” sound sounds like error which reminds the reader that someone has made an error

Question 23

Showing how the soilders lost and won…

Explain

Answer 23

“All the world wonder’d”

It is ambegous language

It shows how the soilders lost but won the crowd
It shows here was an “erred” error