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para wise summary of poem the charge of light brigade

Answer 1

Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, is based on events from the Battle of Balaclava that occurred near the Black Sea in 1854. This battle of the Crimean War, in which England, France and the Ottoman Empire fought against Russia, immediately captured Tennyson's interest when he read a newspaper article detailing British casualties at Balaclava. The many dead and wounded English soldiers were the result of a tragic misunderstanding about the location of Russian arms. Mistakenly informed that these arms were in a valley, the British troops descended and became easy targets of the Russians. As a result, almost half of the Light Brigade died.

Summary & Structure

The plot of The Charge of the Light Brigadeprovides only a bare outline of the battle. Still, Tennyson gives us just enough details in the poem's 6 stanzas to make us realize that the British command has blundered, and that the soldiers fight valiantly, even as many are being torn apart by cannon balls.

As the poem opens, the Light Brigade's leader commands hundreds of his soldiers to keep riding towards the lowlands until they reach and can seize Russian firearms. The troops are, as is mentioned three times in the first stanza, half a league away from finding their enemy's firearms. Unaware that one of their commanders has made a mistake, the soldiers calmly ride forward but as they reach the lowlands, the Light Brigade soldiers are attacked. As cannons sound, the English hold their swords high and fight on. In the smoky air caused by the cannons, the soldiers bravely fight on, managing to run their swords into the flesh of some of their Russian enemies. The soldiers soon find they cannot withstand the Russian cannons any longer, as their horses and friends lie wounded or lifeless on the ground, the surviving soldiers watch their enemies retreat, unaware that their Light Brigade will be remembered as glorious.

Interestingly, Tennyson evokes the complexity of battle and the glory of the Light Brigade by providing a very simple structure for his poem. Not only does he limit the length of his poem to six short stanzas, but he also presents short lines in each stanza. These short lines tend to follow a pattern, known as dactylic dimeter. In this structure, there are six syllables per line: two stressed and four unstressed syllables.

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Answer 2

Answer:

‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson is based on events from the Battle of Balaclava that occurred nearthe Black Sea in 1854. This battle of the Crimean War, in which England, France and the Ottoman Empire fought against Russia, immediately captured Tennyson’s interest when he read a newspaper article detailing British casualties at Balaclava. Many soldiers died and several others were wounded. It is believed that this was the result of tragic misunderstanding about the location of Russian arms. Working on misinformation that the arms were in a valley; the British troops descended and became easy targets of the Russians. As a result, almost half of the Light Brigade died. The latter half of the poem praises the bravery and nobility of the British army which had fought courageously in the war without considering their safety. The world marvelled at the courage of the soldiers; indeed, their glory is undying: the poem states these noble 600 men remain worthy of honor and tribute even today.