charge of the light bregade- tennyson

• heroism: great bravery
• falling rhytem- reflects the falling soldiers going in strong and the loss of them after
• use of dactylic diameter structure echoes the rhytem of charging horses and adds pace and energy- heavy and dramatic recognise bravedry
• structure- rhythem reflects that they cant stop and they are glloping into death
• valley of the death- amplifies the futility of the order biblical metaphore
• charge for the guns! he said- individual power of one man against 600 men
• 'bodly they rode' bravery and heroism- noble honour
• 'theirs but to do and die'
• 'cannon' x 3 amplifies no escape of danger
• 'into the jaws of death/into the mouth of hell' personification of death= fear
• 'storm'd at shot and shell' sibilance and pathetic fallacy and emphasizes sinister actions by those in power, evokes the sound of horror
• 'all the world wonderd' double meaning x2 in awe and respect and also subtly doubting those in power
• 'they rode back, but not/not the six hundred'

  massive loss but brutal details are not given
• to err- to make a mistake

  thundered

  shatered

  wondered
• big idea- poem praises the bravery of the british soldiers who fought in the war whilst suggesting the upper class leadership were at fault. critics the Victorian notion of blind obedience to those in power