The Charge of The Light Brigade Flashcards

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A intro

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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.

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what are the moods by Tennyson

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Heroic/Patriotic

Horrific/Shocking

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Heroic/Patriotic

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When can their glory fade?

O the wild charge they made!

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Horrific/Shocking

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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.
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techniques Tennyson used

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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

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Repetition

incessant repeated anger, feeling of impending doom/disaster

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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them

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reframe

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Rode the six hundred.

Nobel six hundred

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Regular predictable rhythm shows the endurance of the light-brigade and the energy of them facing death

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Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

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my response

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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.

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