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Charge of the light
brigade - Alfred Lord
Tennyson
- Verse 1
- 'Half a league, half a league, half a
league onwards'
- Anaphora
- when a word or phrase is repeated at the
beginning of a line or phrase
- Dactylic metre
- a pattern of one stressed
syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables
- E.g. HALF a league, HALF a league
- 'Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
- Commander told them & they had to obey even
though they were running towards their death
- Verse 2
- Some one had blunder'd
- miscommunication - the
army had charged at the
wrong time
- 'Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not
to reason why, Theirs but to do and
die.'
- The 'ordinary' soldiers couldn't
question authority
- anaphora
- Verse 3
- 'Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them'
- Anaphora
- emphasis that the soldiers are
surrounded
- 'Into the jaws of
Death, Into the mouth
of Hell
- Anaphora
- Metaphor that
the soldiers are
walking towards
their death
- Verse 4
- Even though they were
going to lose, they still
tried their best
- Verse 5
- 'Cannon behind them'
- Even though
the soldiers
had turned
away, the
opposing side
still fired at
them
- 'Storm'd at with shot and shell'
- Use of sibilance replicates
the whooshing sound of the
bullets in the air
- 'Left of six hundred'
- 150 died, 120 injured
- Verse 6
- 'When can their glory fade?'
- rhetorical question -
they will never stop
being heroes
- 'Honour the charge the
made! Honour the Light
Brigade'
- Anaphora
- Honour them even
though they lost in
battle
- 'Noble six
hundred!'
- Managed to 'spin' the evidence so
that the soldiers seemed heroic
instead of cowardly