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By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Share. I. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. II. “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew.
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809 –. 1892. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!"
His poem focuses on the terrible hardships faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the Light Brigade. Its purpose was to shame the British public into offering financial assistance.
Charging an army, while. All the world wondered. Plunged in the battery-smoke.
The alliteration or repetition of the initial “R” sound in “Russian” and “Reeled” and the alliteration of the “S” sound in “saber,” “stroke,” “Shattered,” and “sundered” unite the words in the passage in describing the Light Brigade’s victory in breaking the enemy’s artillery line.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” was written by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson in response to a battle during the Crimean War (1853-1855). In this battle, a British cavalry unit—the “Light Brigade”—was commanded to charge against a Russian artillery unit.
