What is the view on war seen in the poem "The charge of the Light Brigade"

death” to describe the fate that awaits these men. He does not convey the gory reality of the slaughter.    In the second verse Cardigan gives the order “forward the light brigade!” The soldiers know that the order is wrong, but as they are loyal and brave soldiers willing to fight, they did not disagree, and carried out the order! We know this when Tennyson explains that, “Not though' the soldier knew.” Tennyson celebrates the ideal of unquestioning obedience of the soldiers in the face of death, “theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die”  In the third verse Tennyson explains to us about the amount of cannons firing at the light brigade, and how brave and courageous the soldiers were to ride through the gun fire. Tennyson then tells us that the men were hit with shot and shell, commenting on the thunderous noises that were made by the volleying cannons. Then at the end of the verse Tennyson tells us how the soldiers are riding to their death. “Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred”  In the fourth verse, Tennyson tells us the light brigade have “Plunged in the battery-smoke, Right thro' the line they broke.” This speeds up the line and makes it sound more exhilarating for the reader.  Tennyson then explains the soldiers retreating by saying, “Then they rode back but not the six hundred.”           In the fifth verse Tennyson explains the cannons firing at the men. He also tells us that the men are heroes, but are losing their lives rapidly; we know this when he says, “While horse and hero fell.” Throughout the verse Tennyson explains that they are so brave and have fought so well. We know this when Tennyson explains, “they had fought so well.” “They came back from the mouth of hell, all that was left of them left of the six hundred.” In the final verse Tennyson makes a feeling of heroism towards the soldiers I can tell this when he says, “Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light brigade, Noble six hundred! Through the whole poem I notice that Tennyson uses words to influence the reader. The first word placed in the poem to influence is the word “league” which is used in the first two lines of the poem “Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward”, because the word league is usually used as a nautical term for distance, the writer has used it to show how deep the soldiers were getting into the situation and that the situation would be a struggle to get out of. He chose the word league to make the reader imagine a long trek. Next is the word battery. Tennyson chose this word to show that these lightly armoured soldiers were up against. A battery is an impenetrable fortification with large dismembering weapons, and that is exactly the image that the reader gets in their head. Also further through the poem there are 3 types of words that all refer to a battle “valley of death”, “jaws of death”, and “mouth of hell”.