The Charge Of The Light Brigade Flashcards
1
Q
Piece of context regarding the poet
A
Victorian poet
From middle class family but was on poverty at point of life
Engaged but fiancés father didn’t approve from financial state
Was poet laurette
2
Q
What’s the poem about?
A
‘Light brigade’ in Crimean war and the mistake that cost men their lives
3
Q
Rode….
A
“Rode the six hundred”
4
Q
Ered
A
“Some one had blundered”
“All the world wondered”
“Thundered” “shattered”
5
Q
Biblical
A
“Into the valley of death”
6
Q
Form?
A
Ballad- repeating phrases, “rode th six hundred”
7
Q
What’s poets message?
A
Memory of war but cautionary tale of status
