The charge of the light brigade

• Half a league, half a league, half a league onward

  rhythmic / fluid chant

  no faulter in there disicions
• Rode the six hundred


  Scale of their loss
• He said:


  Their duty to fight and obey orders
• Was there a man dismay’d


  Duty not to question
• Some on had blunder’d

  Preventable death
• Theirs but to do and die


  Duty to die for their country
• Repitition of ‘six hundred’

  Repetition to not forget their actions
• Jaws of death … mouth of hell


  Personification, prevents death as inevitable and blood thirsty
• Sabre-stroke shatterd and sunderd


  Silibance, sounds of shoots
• Not the six hundred


  Finality to their actions
• Hero fell


  Honourable language
• Nobel six hundred!


  Juxtaposes hellish reality with honour, giving meaning to there death
• Repition reflects the innevatibility of their death
• Ends on a honourable note to signify tone and put the six hundred at the centre of the message
• Key themes


  • inevitability of death
  • honour
  • duty
  • horrors of war
• Comparison poems


  • exposure
  • bayonet charge
  • remains
  • poppies
  • kamikaze
  • war photographer
  • tissue