the charge of the light brigade

• half a league onward


  emphasises relentless foreward movement, despite the odds against them
• theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or to die


  highlights obedience, who follow orders without questioning them
• into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell


  personification of death and hell to make it seem like they're monsters, unable to escape
• cannon to the right, cannon to the left, cannon in the front of them


  repetition of this phrase shows that the men are surrounded and have no escapism
• rhymes "reply" "why" "die"


  shows soldiers obedience and sense of duty and routine
• into the valley of death


  travelling to their death, shows how brave they are. gives a sense of doom
• noble 600


  applauding their bravery as they had been sacrificed into a brutal mission
• the poem celebrates the act of bravery and sacrifice
• half a league onward
• into the jaws of death
• into the mouth of hell
• noble six hundred
• into the valley of death