Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Conflict of war
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Abuse of power
- "Forward Light Brigade"
- "Theirs not to make reply"
- "Jaws of death"
- Death
- "but to do and die"
- They're dead following orders
- Juxtaposition of life and death
- "Valley of death"
- "mouth of Hell"
- Riding into death
- Religious
connotations
- metaphor
foreshadowing
- Structure
- The rhythm imitates
horses galloping
- A partial rhyme scheme
shows partial control
- Exposure
- Structure
- First person plural/narrative
- Repition
- "But nothing happens"
- Used throughout the
poem to suggest nothing
has changed
- No hope
- Nature
- "All their eyes are ice"
- Vivid imagery
- Metaphor for the soldier's
internal decease
- "merciless iced"
- Nature has been
personified to be cruel
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Bayonet Charge
- Structure
- Enjambement
- No time to pause
- Chaos
- Its a never ending fast face life
- Declarative sentences
- "King, honour, human dignity, etcetera"
- Reasons to fight
- Repeatedly told this -
WWII propaganda
- Letting go of the idealistic reasons for war
- "Dropped like luxuries in a
yelling alarm"
- Simile
- panic and danger
- unexpected
- Remains
- Structure
- Enjambement
- First person narrative
- Mixed emotions
- "Probably armed,
possibly armed"
- Repitition of disbelief
- Uncertainty
- Its a blur
- "sort of inside out"
- Colloquial language - lack of formality
- Overkill - repeatedly shot
- Violent imagery
- Kamikaze
- Structure
- Third person narrative / two
narrators and in the past
tense
- Creates distance
- Supporting the theme of being shunned
- We are reading suppositions
as no one spoke to the pilot
- Complex verbs
- "which had been the better
way to die"
- Creates a huge distance between her and
the realisation of the reality ofher father's
life
- Wondering if dying as a pilot would
be better than dying alone