the charge of the light brigade

• themes

  • glorification of war
  • patriotic
  • suffering
• context

  • alfred, lord tennyson
  • crimean war
  • soldiers presented as heroic
• quotes

  • rode the six hundred
  • noble six hundred
  • into the jaws of death
  • into the mouth of hell
• structure

  • repetition
  • third person
  • rhetorical questions
  • enjambment
  • anaphora
• compare to exposure