The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

Who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade

Answer 1

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Question 2

Charge of the Light Brigade - context

Answer 2

Battle in the crimean war
Soldiers were given an incorrect order, which led to 600 charging to their deaths

Question 3

Alfred Lord Tennyson - context

Answer 3

He was a poet Laureate

He wrote Charge of the Light Brigade to honour the 600 and make their charge appear as a noble and heroic in nature

Question 4

Charge of the Light Brigade - quotes

Answer 4

Valley of Death → trapped / danger / certain

Theirs but to do and die → purpose heroism

Storm’d at with shot and shell → powerful, intense, unending

Into the Jaws of death into the mouth of Hell → personification of death makes it seem predatory
Hell gives a sense of sacrifice / martydom

Horse and hero fell → glory, brothers in arms

Honour the charge they made honour the light brigade → imperative instructs reader to admire them

Question 5

Charge of the Light Brigade - structure

Answer 5

Dactylic diameter - half a league, half a league, half a league onward
^ rhythm of horses hooves, creates momentum

Cannon to the right of them…. to the left of them… In front of them
^ repetition reinforces how they are trapped
(Later it says behind, reaffirming the idea they are trapped)

Noble six hundred → exclamative final message emphasises their heroism

Question 6

Tones
Charge of the Light Brigade

Answer 6

Passion
Admiration
Awe
Celebration