charge of the light brigade

• themes


  war life and death and sacrifice

  impact on war as soldiers collectively
• set around

  crimean war sacrifice through miscommunications
• Quote 1 honour the light brigade honour the charge they made


  creates an impression that the soldiers go through the experiences together and are all affected

  verb they shows the reader the soldier in maw must go through seeing death and other horrors together and doesnt focus on a singular soldier

  verb honour poet believes that the soldiers should be respected and appreciated for and includes positivity
• quote 2 ride the six hundred


  physcial impacts of war

  constant reminder to the reader of how many soldiers were actually killed and the repetition could highlight his anger

  he portrays the violence and killing which war results in

  russians didnt have many weapons whereas the british were heavily armed
• someone had blundered


  impact of war from the leaders themselves

  demonstrates how because of a mistake of those in authority the soldiers have to go through a horrible experience

  enemy is not the fighting enemy but the leaders who put them in poisition in the first place- mimics the crimean war
• quote 4 - valley of death and mouth of hell


  metaphors show they are trapped

  shows the reader the the soldiers death is inevitable and they must face the reality of there situation .

  made to have sympathy for the soldiers , suffer physically and get haunted about their eventual death