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“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, pages 62-63
Vocabulary
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1. Why do you suppose Tennyson has repeated canon at the beginning six lines (stanzas three
and five)?
2. Find and record an example of an allusion within the first stanza.
3. What is the speaker’s outlook on war?
4. In the poem’s last stanza, the speaker asks, “When can their glory fade?” By writing the
poem, Tennyson seems to be trying to ensure that it never does. What is the term for a
question asked that is not mean to be answered?
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