It was a favourite of Queen Victoria, who said the book helped to comfort her after her husband Albert's death. With Victoria's patronage, Tennyson was acclaimed as the greatest poet of his day and was appointed poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth.
The Charge of the Light Brigade was written at the height of his fame in Context Alfred, Lord Tennyson was one of the most important poets of the Victorian period.
He was used to producing 'occasional' pieces of verse to mark important occasions and wanted to pay respect to the military personnel who had lost their lives. This makes The Charge of the Light Brigade partly an unusual elegy as well as an excellent narrative poem - and a piece that has remained popular in performance.
In fact, Tennyson himself made an early recording of the poem in , which survives. Just don't expect great quality! Speech Tennyson includes speech as part of his poem, He asks rhetorical questions, giving a strong impression of his own perspective and then gives direct instructions using a repeated imperative verb, 'Honour…!
This means that the poem is always associated with him as a poet, and it did become one of his most famous pieces: just short enough to memorise and exciting and patriotic enough to teach to children. You could compare it to another of his very successful military pieces, ' The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet ' Imagery There is relatively little imagery used, but what Tennyson does choose are powerful, 'heavy' phrases.
The 'valley of Death' is an echo of biblical language, specifically the 'valley of the shadow of death' in Psalm This borrows the serious tone of religious language as well as the morbid reference in describing the actual valley that the cavalry rode through. He describes their destination as the 'jaws of Death', implying the jaws of a trap or monster, and this is echoed by the phrase 'mouth of Hell'.
You might find it reminiscent of horses' hooves or military drums, but it changes pace and pattern through the stanzas and between the lines. However, the poem is written in front-stressed metre - either trochees or dactyls - unlike the majority of English poetry which is written in iambic or 'rising' metre. Tennyson's poem doesn't contribute to the analysis of the "blunder" itself, though he might have found rich material in the psychology of the main players.
I don't think it sets out to glorify war, but it's certainly not a protest. It recreates the sabre-flashing excitement of warfare, even in the ironical context of bare sabres against guns. There's a certain theatricality and exaggeration in the twice-repeated line, "All the world wonder'd".
Skilful elision and brilliantly descriptive shorthand at times approach cliche. Yet its narrative grip and verve are beyond question. It's not a great poem, perhaps, but it is a great ballad. Tennyson himself recites the poem on a wax-cylinder recording here. Milam was born in in Frankfort, Kentucky. He became a The actor Al Pacino stars as a Cuban refugee who becomes a Miami crime boss in Scarface, which opens in theaters on December 9, In Scarface, Pacino played Tony Montana, who arrives in Florida from Cuba in and eventually becomes wealthy from his involvement in the Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner is found dead on the street with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a well-known activist and freelance journalist, lying severely wounded nearby.
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