Analysis of Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Analysis of Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1. Poem is about a disastrous battle in the Crimean War 1854

   • The Crimea is is in Russia

2. Vocabulary

   • League - measurement about 3 miles
   • Sabre - type of sword
   • Cossack - a Russian soldier

3. Poetic Techniques

   • Repetition
     • Captures galloping military rhythm
   • Rhetorical question
     • "When can their glory fade?"
   • Imperative
     • Telling people to honour the soldiers
   • Hyperbole
     • "All the world wonder'd" over exaggeration

4. Military language mixed with religious allusion

   • References 23rd psalm "valley of death"
     • The soldiers will die honourably and go to Heaven

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