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Title: Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson revision guide GCSE English Lit, AQA
Description: A handy revision guide containing detailed language analysis of several key quotes from this poem from the AQA GCSE English Lit Power and Conflict poetry cluster. Also includes: context, structure, form and key themes incorporated into linked bullet points. Can be used in class or set for students’ own at home revision.
Description: A handy revision guide containing detailed language analysis of several key quotes from this poem from the AQA GCSE English Lit Power and Conflict poetry cluster. Also includes: context, structure, form and key themes incorporated into linked bullet points. Can be used in class or set for students’ own at home revision.
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The Charge of the Light
Brigade
● Context: This poem describes when
the Light Brigade were accidentally
sent into a valley surrounded by enemy
soldiers, during the Crimean War
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● “Into the jaws of Death/Into the mouth of Hell” - this phrase personifies
death and Hell and makes them seem like angry beasts or wild animals
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The word
“jaws” makes it sound as if the soldiers are like bait, sent to tempt the heavilyarmed Russian soldiers
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● “Half a league, half a league/Half a league onward” - the repetition of this
phrase sounds almost sinister, but this rhythm could also mirror the sound of
the horses’ hooves galloping against the ground
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The repetitive nature of this phrase may also mirror the
repetitiveness of life as a soldier, which - despite the constant threat to life was often monotonous and long
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● “All the world wonder’d” - this phrase has a double meaning, as Tennyson
could be referring to the way in which people were in awe of the soldiers’
heroism and bravery
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Themes, form and structure
● The overall lack of a rhyme scheme may hint at the chaos of war
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● The speaker is both in admiration at the sacrifice made by the men and in
horror, due to the violence of the battle
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Title: Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson revision guide GCSE English Lit, AQA
Description: A handy revision guide containing detailed language analysis of several key quotes from this poem from the AQA GCSE English Lit Power and Conflict poetry cluster. Also includes: context, structure, form and key themes incorporated into linked bullet points. Can be used in class or set for students’ own at home revision.
Description: A handy revision guide containing detailed language analysis of several key quotes from this poem from the AQA GCSE English Lit Power and Conflict poetry cluster. Also includes: context, structure, form and key themes incorporated into linked bullet points. Can be used in class or set for students’ own at home revision.