charge of the light brigade

Cards (6)

  • into the jaws of death
    image personifies death and hell and make them seem like monsters that the soldiers cannot escape from. repetition creates a sense of impending doom and inevitability
  • all the world wondered
    people marvelled at the bravery or that they wondered why they had been sent on the charge
  • honour the light brigade noble six hundred
    repetition of six hundred- reinforces the large number of men involved.
    command- feels eevryone must feel the smae way
  • written - 1854
  • wrote as a tribute to men who died in the battle
  • one of the greatest poets of the victorian era