"The Charge of The Light Brigade" - Poem anaylisis.

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"The Charge of The Light Brigade" Poem anaylisis

        "The Charge of The Light Brigade" was a poem written by Lord Alfred Tennyson in

Nowember 1954. Tennyson got the job of  Poet Laureate after the death of William

Wordsworth in 1850, his job was to write poems on the signifcants of his country . He bases

the poem on a brief report from "The Times" newspaper which was published on October

1954. Tennyson was a civilian and a arm chair patriot he wrote his poems from reports.

        The poem celebrates "The Light Brigade" bravery even though they were masacred by

the Russian army because of a terrible military blunder caused by the Lord Raglan. This

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catatrophic mistake wiped nearly all of the 17th Lancers out, britains best cavalry brigade.

        "The Charge of The Light Brigade"cosists of six stanzas which have short but effective

sentences, repitition, metaphors and rhetorical questions, Tennyson goes through the stages of

the battle during the course of the poem..

        The poem opens up with a rhythm "Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards"

Tennyson uses repition here to establish the sound of galloping horses. "All in the valley of

death" is a metaphor and a effective sentence because the soldiers are entering the valley ...

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