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The Charge of the Light Brigade is a narrative poem because it tells a story and does not follow a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm. It also features aspects of the ballad.
The greatest spectacle but the most tragic event of the Crimean war took place at the Battle of Balaclava, the charge of the Light Brigade. After the French and British victory at the battle of Alma the allied forces headed south toward the Russian citadel of Sebastopol.
“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.
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry.
Key learning points. The poem documents the lightly armed British cavalry receiving a "blunder'd" order and charging into enemy fire. Tennyson urges remembrance of the soldiers' actions, but also highlights the oversight that led to their deaths.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854. Coloured photogravure after Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), published by Henry Greaves and Co, London, 1895. Of all British military engagements during the 19th century, the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava remains the most notorious. One of the most spectacular of military ...
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‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ is one of the rare instances of a Poet Laureate producing a good poem while in office. It was inspired by one of the greatest calamities in British military history: on October 25, 1854, the British Light Cavalry Brigade, comprising some 670 men, charged disastrously against some 25,000 Russian soldiers.
