To compare The Charge of the Light Brigade with The Destruction of

To compare The Charge of the Light Brigade with The Destruction of

Sennacherib

In this essay we are going to be comparing two war poems. They are

‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

and ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ by Lord Byron (1788-1824).

‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ is set in the Crimean war. It is

about the British cavalry getting the wrong orders and going straight

at the enemy’s cannons. ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ is a biblical

story. The story tells us about a whole army being wiped out really

quickly as they slept by the ‘Angel of Death’.

The first poem we are going to look at is ‘The Charge of the Light

Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). In this poem Tennyson

describes the valley that the cavalry had to gallop along as ‘The

Valley of Death’. This makes you think that as they go along the

valley the soldiers will die. He describes the soldiers as heroic and

he admires their courage because the soldiers did not question their

orders even though they were likely to be killed. To emphasise this

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