Charge of the Light Brigade

• ‘Rode the six hundred’
• ’Plunged in the battery-smoke’
• ’Not the six hundred’
• • Iambic tetrameter
  • True story about the Battle of Balaclava during the crimean war in the 1860s
  • About the futility of war
• • Futility of war
  • Power of extremity of authority + obeying
  • No return
  • Vulnerability/lack of understanding