Comparison of Charge of the Light Brigade and Green Beret

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Comparison of Charge of the Light Brigade and Green Beret

The Charge of the Light Brigade is about an army of six hundred men on

horseback going into war without a say on whether they want to or not.

The poem is structured into six stanzas and the rhyming scheme is

A,B,C,B,D,E,C,B. Someone in charge had " blunder'd " and called out

orders for six hundred British Calvary to storm a full Russian

battalion

Suddenly they were surrounded;

" Cannon to the right of them"

" Cannon to the left of them"

" Cannon in front of them"

As they tried to get through the enemy line a lot of the Light Brigade

died, but some of them survived Tennyson calls them all " the noble

six hundred.

The imagery of this poem is very affective. The nightmare of death,

the blood going everywhe...

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