Language

• " Half a league, half a league " 


  • Militaristic terms
• " Into the valley of Death "


  • Religious imagery
  • "Death" to connote their impending doom
• " Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of Hell "


  • Heavy ecclesiastical imagery
  • Highlights their impending demise
  • Crimean war sparked over religion so influenced poem
• " Cannon to the left of them, cannon to the right of them, cannon in front of them "


  • Use of vivid imagery to set the location
• " Honour the the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade!" 


  • Use of imperatives reflecting on pushing pro-war
  • Juxtaposes the state in which they left their corpses
• " Volley'd and thunder'd; storm'd at shot and shell " x2


  • Plosive onomatopoeia
  • Repetition of it to ingrain the sound of the gunfire
  • Aggressive verbs to reflect the hostile situation
  • Sibilance