The charge of the light brigade

half a league, half a league

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Themes: heroism, bravery, honour

Opens poem with a sense of movement and rhythm suggesting dominance and superiority

Charge is glorified, making the soldiers seem heroic to audiences.

Valley of death

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Themes: effects of conflict, reality of conflict, honour, bravery

This establishes danger and the inevitability of death

Presents the soldiers as heroic yet also doomed

Audience sees them as brave for doing this

Theirs not to reason why

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Reality of conflict, heroism, bravery, honour.

The soldiers are accepting their fate.

This praises their loyalty and bravery to the audience.

Shifts the blame away from the solders, it wasn’t their duty to ask why they were going there

poetic links

realistic presentation of war, Exposure or Batonette charge

Commemorating the dead in poppies

Bravery/ cowardice in kamikaze

Irregular rhyme scheme

Structure

Mimicked horses hooves and makes the soldiers seem more heroic - glorified

Enjabments

Structure

Suggests the solders honour running on forever

Horses running on