The Charge of The Light Brigade Flashcards
A intro
a poem describing a historical incident during the Crimean war and the story of a blundering general leaning to a fleet of men to their their death. This poem honours the bravery of those soldiers.
what are the moods by Tennyson
Heroic/Patriotic
Horrific/Shocking
Heroic/Patriotic
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
Horrific/Shocking
They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
techniques Tennyson used
Repetition and reframe
Regular predictable rhythm shows the endurance of the light-brigade and the energy of them facing death
momentum broken by unrhymed lines
Repetition
incessant repeated anger, feeling of impending doom/disaster
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
reframe
Rode the six hundred.
Nobel six hundred
Regular predictable rhythm shows the endurance of the light-brigade and the energy of them facing death
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
my response
While today we will not value the following orders blindly to death. However the poem CoL gives us insight into a typical man of Tennyson’s class at the time demonstrating the glory of dying for one’s country.