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Victorian Attitude to War 'Charge of the Light Brigade', written during the time of the Crimean War (1852-54) was a war poem written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate at the time. The poem was written by Tennyson after reading an eye-witness account of the war in the newspaper. This account portrayed the horror and the pity of war. Tennyson, who never went to war or was involved with it, disagreed with this view and wrote this poem to glorify the war, to motivate the public to be pro-war and to feel the same way as he did towards war. Tennyson's view on war was that it was glorifying to fight. To fight and die for your country was the noblest thing any man could do. We see this when Tennyson writes: "When can their glory fade?" Tennyson uses this rhetorical question to ask the reader if the Light Brigade could ever lose the...

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