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Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Charge Of The Light Brigade

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‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This poem tells the story of the Battle of Balaclava where a group of six hundred lightly equipped British soldiers who charged into The Valley of Death during the Crimean War while they were extremely outnumbered by Russian forces on all sides who had stolen some of their weapons. This poem also highlights the nobility and bravery of the British forces in that battle, and also the ugliness and horrors in war. Tennyson wrote this poem to honor those soldiers’ obedience and bravery after he read about the Battle of Balaclava in a newspaper article. He also uses a handful of literary devices like repetition, personification, and rhyme while doing so.
The Battle of Balaclava
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