View Charge Of The Light Brigade Poem Pdf Background. Into the valley of death. • the poem tells the story of a brigade consisting of 600 soldiers who rode on horseback into the valley of death for half a league (about one and • not a single soldier was discouraged or distressed by the command to charge forward, even though all the soldiers realized that their commander had.
Charge for the guns! he said:
Tennyson became poet laureate in 1850, and part of his function was to the poem pays tribute to a brigade of valiant british soldiers, who obeyed their commander's instructions to attack russian troops. Although the light brigade reached the battery under withering direct fire and scattered some of the gunners, the badly mauled brigade was forced to thus, the assault ended with very high british casualties and no decisive gains. To its admirers, the poem's a tribute to the light brigade's selfless courage: The charge of the light brigade may refer to: