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The Charge of the Light Brigade. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 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.
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.
The poem is a narrative poem, one that tells a story. These lines, in following the first lines of the text, establish the setting and the situation in the story that will unfold as the poem continues. The “six hundred” refers to the soldiers in the Light Brigade.
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!"
The Charge of the Light Brigade. 1. 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. 2. "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew.
“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.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 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. Someone had blundered.
At the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854, the 607 cavalrymen of the Light Brigade, acting on a misinterpreted order, directly charged the Russian artillery–a costly mistake.
‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred Tennyson presents the heroic battle between the English Light Brigade and the Russian army. Six hundred soldiers of the English side rode gallantly to the valley of death symbolizing the battlefield.
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 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.
