English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1310 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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The idea
"The Charge of the Light Brigade," published six weeks after the cavalry charge at Balaclava in the Crimean War in eighteen fifty-four, honours men who obeyed a mistaken order: "Their's not to reason why, / Their's but to do and die."
In practice
Obedience into the valley of Death.
Where people slip
The poem honours the men, not the order.
Your place on the trail
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