B. Answer the following questions.
1. What is the distance covered by the soldiers?
2. What does the valley of Death refer to? Why?
3. What was the Light Brigade ordered to do in the first stanza?
4. Did the British soldiers feel discouraged? Why?
5. How many soldiers rode back? Why?
6. Who won the battle?
Answers
Answer:
(1)The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) is the mapping system standard used by NATO military members for locating points on the earth and can pinpoint a place on Earth to the nearest meter. But among members of the military, the term "klick" is a standard measure of walked distances.
(2)A grim place where death is or seems imminent. It appears in the Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and is likely a shortened version of the Biblical phrase "valley of the shadow of death." Walking through that old, bombed-out neighborhood, Sam felt like he was in the valley of death.
(3)“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. The order was almost suicidal, and the brigade was decimated in the charge. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” celebrates the self-sacrifice and heroism of the cavalrymen, suggesting that bravery consists of doing one's duty even when it leads to almost certain death.
(4) No, they did not. It was because they were carrying out their duty and if they were to die, they would die with honour/ They had to obey the command of their leader.
(5)The poem tells the story of a brigade consisting of 600 soldiers who rode on horseback into the “Valley of Death” for half a league (about one and a half miles). They were obeying a command to charge the enemy forces that had been seizing their guns.
(6) the end, of the roughly 670 Light Brigade soldiers, about 110 were killed and 160 were wounded, a 40 percent casualty rate. They also lost approximately 375 horses. Despite failing to overrun Balaclava, the Russians claimed victory in the battle, parading their captured artillery guns through Sevastopol