The Charge of the Brigade
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Theme- Courage and honor
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Imagery
“Volley’d and thunder’d” – meaning the firing of the canons (thunder’d) ; shooting of the guns, discharge of missiles and firearms (volley’d)
Sound devices
* Rhyme (lines 9 – 10 “Found …dismay’d”)
* Near-rhyme (lines 2 & 4 “onward …hundred”)
* This poem is using Modulation
Figurative Language
* Personification (line 26 “into the jaws of death”)
* Hyperbole… personification (line 49 “back from the mouth of Hell”)
* “Valley of death”?