The Charge Of The Light Brigade Flashcards
What is the context?
- Crimean war
- misconception sent
- Tennyson was poet laureate
- explains propagandist tone
What is the form?
- third person
- strong rhythm
- Ballard- like song
- 6 verses- 600 soldiers
What is the biblical imagry used in the first stanza?
Valley of death
What does “rode the six hundred” connote?
Connotations of death
When is anaphora used?
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them
What does anaphora is cannon mean?
Emphasis intensity of the charge and indicate how outnumbered they were
When is sibilence used?
Storm’d at with shot and shell
When is personification used?
Jaws of death
Mouth of hell
What does the personification of jaws and death and mouth of hell do.
Shows hellish images
What does the change to “not the six hundred” mean?
Reminding reader they are going to die
When is episteophy used?
Cannon to be right of them
Cannon to the left of them
Cannon behind them
What does “left of them” mean?
Connotations of people being ripped apart with little left of them
What is the rhetorical question used? And when is it used?
When can their glory fade?
Beginning of last stanza
What is the last line of the poem?
Novel six hundred
