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Read Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. What in your opinion is the main theme of the poem?
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G.C.S.E Coursework. Michael Greco. Read Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. What in your opinion is the main theme of the poem? While explaining your answer you will need to comment on the poet's literacy skills. From the first few lines of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade,' Tennyson plunges you into the poem, creating an awesome, in depth feeling of reality. His words are so powerful, that they make you feel as if you are one of the Light Brigade. With this war language he uses he gives the reader a feeling of heroism and bravery, an inexorable feeling. 'Charge for the guns! Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.' This illustrates the great irony or war, as they are marching into the valley on a misinterpreted command. The actual command that was given was to ret rite from the valley and not to go into it. ...
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