Exposure and Charge of the Light Brigade

• 1. "into the Vally of death" COTLB war as harsh 


  Tennyson uses biblical imagery as his audience was Christian to get his message across that war is anti Christian
• 1."merciless iced east winds" E war as harsh


  Natural imagery - personifies "merciless" suggesting nature is against the soldiers 'East winds" biblical language.
• 2. "... the soldiers knew" "...valley of Death" - war as honourable COTLB 


  anti rhyme- "knew" and "death" only two words at end each line in stanza two in order to stand out. Emphasis how heroic the "six hundred" were.
• 2. "We keep awake" "our brains ache" "We watch them" E war not act of honour


  wanted to create sympathy for soldiers by reality of war juxtaposing poroperganda
• 3."all there eyes are ice" E effect of war 


  Metaphor suggests they are frozen in time and cannot escape their suffering reflected by consistency of rhyme scheme
• 3. "All the world wonder'd" COTLB Effect of war


  Shows how the soldiers were blinded by propaganda whereas everyone else saw it was a suicidal battle - Crimean war
• what type of poet was Tennyson

  Poet Laureate has to support views of Queen and government
• Owen was a soldier himself and wanted to share the reality of war