Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Charge of the light brigade
- Link to conflict
- Conflict between the bravery of the
soldiers and the stupidity of the
mission.
- Link to power
- The powerful military imagery
creates paradox of blind duty
as the men charge to their
deaths
- Key quotes
- "Into the valley of death rode the six hundred"
- Metaphor- to show the inevitability of the 600 deaths.
- "Someone had blundered"
- "blunder'd" -
verb -
someone had
made a
mistake.
- "Stormed at the shot and shell"
- Their courage still remains
- "When can they glory fade?"
- caesura- shows Tennyson's
frustration to the charge
-it shouldn't of happened.
- "Half a league, half a league, half a
league onward"
- Repetition- a chance for appreciation as we imagine how far they charged.
- Structure
- The powerful military rhythm matches the rhythm of marching drums.
- Context
- A miscommunication led a group of soldiers head first
into a battle with cataphoric results.
- In 1850 Tennnyson
became poet Laurette.
He critises upper class
in his poems based on
the Crimena war.