*****Charge of the light brigade*****

Question 1

summery

Answer 1

a large brigade of soldiers are commanded to march to their deaths. they charge heroically but only a few return

Question 2

what was tennysons childhood like

Answer 2

very unhappy

Question 3

what was tennysons education like

Answer 3

rich relative ssent him to good grammar school

Question 4

what was tennysons role

Answer 4

poet laurate

Question 5

what did a pot laurette write about

Answer 5

glorify war to the british public and to defend people of high class and power

Question 6

what was the was the war that the poem was set about and who was it inbetween

Answer 6

crimean war

Question 7

in the poem what was the specific battle written about called

Answer 7

the battle of balaclava

Question 8

what happened within the battle of balaclava

Answer 8

an order was misunderstood and 600 men charges straigh down a valley into the fire of russian cannons

Question 9

who are the light brigade

Answer 9

members of the lower class who werent very well protected and armoured

Question 10

whats the structure of the poem and why

Answer 10

6 stanzas - representing 600 men who lost their lives