The charge of the light brigade

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  • The charge of the light brigade
    • Themes
      • Reality of conflict
      • Pride
      • Loss
      • Glory
      • Absense
      • Effects of conflict
    • Linking poems
      • Poppies
      • Bayonet charge
      • War photographer
      • Exposure
      • Remains
    • What's it about?
      • It is about  a disastrous battle during the Crimean war  between British cavalry and Russian forces
      • The light brigade were ordered to advance into a valley,which was surrounded by enemy soldiers
      • The light brigade soon realised that the order was a mistake and they were likely to head to their deaths by following it,yet they went anyway
      • The cavalry were only armed by swords;whereas the enemy had guns and cannons
      • Many of British soldiers were killed,the poem wants to keep the memories of the bravery alive and honoured
    • "Cannon to the right of them ,cannon to the left of them,cannon in front of them"
      • Tennyson uses anaphora to emphasise the artillery surrounding the soldiers
      • Allows reader to identify with the soldiers,   emphasises their courage and valour
    • "All in the valley of death"
      • Alludes to the psalm 23 from the New Testament of the bible
      • Faith makes people braved when they are faced with death
      • In this time ,the majority of people would have been of a Christian faith
    • "Into the mouth of hell"
      • The personification used makes us realise it's like saying there "trapped" in the jaws
      • The personification used makes us feel asif the things around him were "alive" made them more exaggerated gave them animal characteristic so could have a vision of the event
    • "Into the jaws of death"
      • Treats death as same thing as hell,death is described as predator;like an animal attack

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