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Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson - Coggle Diagram
Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Repetition/Anaphora
"Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do an die"
Passive
"Rode the six hundred."
Stanza 1, 2 and 3
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them"
Imagery that they were surrounded
"Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air"
High levels of illiteracy.
Duty
"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why,"
Dutiful soldiers were not able to question even though they knew it was wrong
"Boldly they rode and well"
Brave soldiers
"Not tho' the soldiers knew"
Allows the reader to question the decisions made by the soldier and commander
Stanzas
Stanza 4
Longest stanza
Represents the defeat
Calvary was outnumbered
Stanza 6
Shortest stanza
Celebrating the Calvary's sacrifice
Patriotic Obedience
Praise of bravery and honour
Echoes the brevity of young noble lives lost
Imagery
"Sabring the gunners there"
Imagery of what it would be like in battle
"Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke"
Imagery of battle - Truth behind propaganda
"Storm'd with shot and shell"
Auditory imagery - sounds of battle shots
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author of COTLB
Which is a reference to the Crimean War, specifically Battle of Balaclava
Did not go into war
Experiences in poem comes from what he could see
Or his imagination
Or what he thought the war was like
His views of war are against war