The Charge Of The Light Brigade (tcotlb) Flashcards
1
Q
Rode
A
“Rode the six hundred”
2
Q
Some one
A
“Some one had blunder’d”
3
Q
Death
A
“Into the valley of death”
"Into the jaws of death"
4
Q
World
A
“All the world wonder’d”
5
Q
Ered
A
- “blunder’”
- “wonder’d”
- “sunder’d”
- “thunder’d”
6
Q
Forward
A
“Forward the light brigade”
7
Q
Noble
A
“Noble six hundred”
8
Q
CONTEXT
A
- Victorian poet
- poet from middle class family but was in poverty in adult life
- poet Laurette
- Crimean war
9
Q
STRUCTURE
A
- 6 verses for each 100 men
- dactylic dimeter- mirror sound of charging horses
- usually used for comical purposes/ poet used to emphasise mistake
