The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

Charge: Narrative

Answer 1

British get the order to ride into battle against imperial Russia and it was a mistake. The soldiers are riding to their death and it is bloody. This poem detailes the horrors of war.

Question 2

Charge: Context

Answer 2

Crimean war from 1853-1856. First ever eue witness reports. Battle of balaclava. A command was misunderstood and 600 cavalrymen rode charging down a narrow valley into Russian cannon fire. Over 150 were killed and more than 120 were wounded.

Question 3

Charge: Structure

Answer 3

Iambec diameter meaning that it mimics the sound of the horses hooves as they charge.

Question 4

Charge: Form

Answer 4

Ballad

Question 5

Charge: lang techniques

Answer 5

Line 12 - verb - blunder’d - foreshadowing contraction
Line 16 - anaphorah - into the valley of death - sense of scale
Line 22 - sibilance - shot and shell - bullets sinister tone.