The Charge of the Light Brigade Themes

Warfare is probably the #1 theme here.  Ultimately, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is a poem about a battle.  It spends a lot of time describing the confusion, the terror, the bloodshe...

There's no question that the Light Brigade has guts.  Every last one of them (according to Tennyson) charges forward to the enemy line and does his job.  Tennyson makes sure to point out...

The tragedy here is that many of the brave soldiers in the Light Brigade die in this battle.  Tennyson doesn't say how many, and he doesn't go into gory details.  Still, death is everywhe...

The men in the Light Brigade are just doing their job; they're soldiers and it's their duty to fight.  That's the core of what makes them appealing and heroic, but it's also the thing that mak...

Tennyson doesn't write "The Charge of the Light Brigade" because it's a good story, or because he just thinks you'd be kind of interested.  He wants to accomplish something specific.  He...