![]() ![]() “ is a constant reminder of the sacrifice, the doomed charge and the courage that the soldiers had. “Into the valley of Death, Rode the six hundred. Tennyson finest use of poetic devises is the repetition throughout the poem. The rhythmic beat echoes the charge and creates great imagery for the reader as the alliteration tells the violent story. Tennyson shows great use of structure in which he creates the narrated feel of the charge. “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell”. The charge represents, hell, death and chaos for e.g. Throughout out the poem you feel the sense of “doom” although the soldiers represent courage, bravery and are the real heroes. Tennyson's representations are evident in ‘the charge of the light brigade’ from both the perspective of ‘the charge’ and ‘the soldier’. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death/ I will fear no evil, for you are with me.” (Psalm 23:4). Inspired by psalm from the Old Testament: ![]() This shows the trend of realism through the poem. As the poems states, “theirs not to reason why, theirs to do and die” Tennyson states this before he reminds us that “into the valley of death, rode the 600”, he also reminds us that these man rode to their death with the knowledge that death was almost certain. The poem highlights the “blunder” that had been made and the respect for authority and their love for their country. The poems purpose was to identify the spirit of the soldier and not the British Empire. The news had then driven Tennyson to write his piece to represent the disastrous events of the charge and the extraordinary bravery of the British soldiers whose lives may have been forgotten. Tennyson wrote the poem when news reached London of the happenings on Russian territory. The war took place in Russia and was major conflict between the Russian Empire and British Empire. “The Charge of Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson was a poem written during the Crimean war in 1854, the poem itself is a glorified view of war that captures the tragic incident of the '600'. ![]()
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