ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Charge of the Light Brigade” is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War . He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in The Examiner.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Charge of the Light Brigade, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1855. The poem, written in Tennyson’s capacity as poet laureate, commemorates the heroism of a brigade of British soldiers at the Battle of Balaklava (1854) in the Crimean War.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is a narrative poem, with features of the ballad form. This means that each stanza progresses the story of the attack. There are six stanzas, as if each stanza is a memorial stone to one hundred of the six hundred cavalrymen. In the first three stanzas the Light Brigade is approaching the guns.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 600 soldiers were assaulted by the shots of shells of canons in front and on both sides of them. Still, they rode courageously forward toward their own deaths: “Into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of hell / Rode the six hundred.” The main themes of the poem include Conflict, Courage, Death and Duty.

Detailed explanation-5: -“The Charge of the Light Brigade” was written by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson in response to a battle during the Crimean War (1853-1855). In this battle, a British cavalry unit-the “Light Brigade”-was commanded to charge against a Russian artillery unit.