The Charge Of The Light Brigade

• What are the big ideas of charge of the light brigade?

  Admiration, patriotism, horror
• What’s the structure of charge of the light brigade?

  • Stanzas increase in length as the cavalry ride into battle
  • Dactylic diameter - rhythm mimics horses hooves
  • Near/ or slant rhyme - soldiers confusion
• What’s a summary of charge of the light brigade?

  • Describes a battle between English cavalry and russian forces - Crimean war
  • A misunderstanding caused a light brigade to be ordered to advance into the valley
  • They were surrounded by enemy soldiers
  • Cavalry were defenceless, they lost
• “Half a league, half a league”

  • dactylic diameter
  • Repetition - measure of distance
• “into the valley of Death”

  • Biblical reference - solemn
  • Capitalisation of death - it’s a place , they’re actually going there, it’s inescapable
• “Cannon to the right of them

  Cannon to the left of them”

  Repetition- surrounded by the enemy, danger
• “Noble six hundred “

  • Epistrophe - presented as one
  • Strong, valiant, heroic - honour them