Analysis of The Charge of the Light Brigade
This particular poem deals with the unfortunate mistake of Battle of
Balaclava in 1854. In an attempt to retrieve their stolen firearms,
the British, lead by Lord Raglen, took their light cavalry to the
innocent Turkish territory, rather than the guilty Russians. In
self-defence Turkey protect themselves by attacking the British troops
causing hundreds of deaths but "not, not the six hundred".
Tennyson uses various techniques to involve the reader more
personally. He uses this to emphasise the pain and suffering felt by
the soldiers so the reader can really appreciate the physical defeat
but the emotional victory from the "noble six hundred". The use of
onomatopoeia in poems is generally used to make the situation more
realistic. Although the same applies in this instance, Tennyson adds
aural imagery to seem as if the reader is actually at the battle
listening to everything being "shatter'd" and "thunder'd". Also, the
words used for onomatopoetic effect are all descriptions of adversity
and hardship. Words such as "shot" and "storm'd" conjure up images of
the death in the mind of the reader.
The stanza layout is specifically used to reflect the journey of the
cavalry. In stanza one, they are striding towards the battlefield,
moving "half a league onward". In the second canto, they are still
travelling to the valley, and tension is mounting, even though their
leader "had blunder'd". Although in modern times this would be very
questionable when a leader makes a mistake when going into a
potentially damaging battle. However, they did not argue or "reason
why". In the third verse, the struggle commences as they are fired at
from all angles. They bravely push o...
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...t of Lancelot in "The Lady of Shalott". Although
one is myth and the other is real the definition of "bravery" is
universal.
The length of each stanza varies form six to twelve lines. The six
stanzas and six lines reflect the "six hundred" soldiers. The altering
stanza length echoes the varying number of soldiers left. The first
three stanzas have nine lines and their last line is "Rode the six
hundred" whereas the last three stanzas are all different with
different endings.
Throughout the poem we notice Tennyson's distaste for war. However he
has made the battle itself rather exaggerated to show that war is not
all about victory, bravery or patriotism, but death, blood and loss.
He does, nevertheless, respect the soldiers involved and tries to make
the reader appreciate the huge level of loss made by the mistake by
one, somewhat more powerful man.
The first poem we are going to look at is ‘The Charge of the Light
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f rounding up the sonnet as well as emphasising complete grief over the loss of Youth. The contrast with the first stanza's violence makes the reader see the different aspects of war - what happens on the battlefield, and what happens at home. Owen's poem, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' is more appealing to me because it deals with two contrasting realities of war. His first stanza highlights the wastefulness of war (deaths of young soldiers) while the second stanza, the mourning for the dead. His sarcastic and later quiet tone reinforce the stark contrast between the different aspects of war.
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The purpose of this paper is to analysis the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon's defeat and describe how an alternate outcome for Napoleon could have brought him victory.
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Furthermore, the utilization of extremely graphic imagery adds even more to his argument. Through the effective use of all three of these tools, this poem conveys a strong meaning and persuasive argument. The poem's use of excellent diction helps to more clearly define what the author is saying. Words like "guttering", "choking", and "drowning" not only show how the man is suffering, but that he is in terrible pain that no human being should endure. Other words like writhing and froth-corrupted say precisely how the man is being tormented. Moreover, the phrase "blood shod" shows how the troops have been on their feet for days, never resting. Also, the fact that the gassed man was "flung" into the wagon reveals the urgency and occupation with fighting. The only thing they ca...
As evident in these three poems, “Tithonus,” “Lady of Shallot” and “Mariana in the Moated Grange,” Tennyson often portrays the world as a sad place. Many times, like in “Tithonus” and “Lady of Shallot,” there is a conflict between wishes and desires. Also, Tennyson often uses the outer environment to heighten the emotions experienced by the characters. In short, Tennyson is able to convey his themes of half-life and death-in-life through the use of imagery, symbolism and figures of speech.
With this being said Heaney uses similes and denotations throughout his poem to put in a sense of tone in the poem to help the readers get a better understanding of what the people were going through when they would see soldiers walking about. According to Dictionary.com (“Simile”, 2016). “A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.” This is being used in line 18 where it says “standing there like youngsters” (Heaney, n.d.). This interprets how men working would pause and observe what was going on and the soldiers marching by just like kids would do when they see something remarkable. Heaney also uses Denotation. Which according to Dictionary.com, “Denotation is the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it.” This is being showed in the poem throughout various lines. It’s being showed when he writes, “They would have heard the screaming, / Then heard it stop and had a view of us / In our gloves and aprons / coming down the hill” (lines 6-9), this evokes an image showing that what is being told and said is what is truly happening. That the soldiers were so close to them that they could hear the slightest scream of a pig being