What is happening in each stanza of the poem the charge of the light brigade?
Here’s what I think is happening. Got the poem in front of you?! 1. The six hundred horsemen are riding towards the enemy, and are ordered to “Charge for the guns”. Lots of emphasis on their galloping. 2. “Someone had blunder’d”: it was a mistake to order a charge on the guns. But the six hundred horsemen, even if they realised it was a mistake, couldn’t say anything about it. It’s up to the person in charge, not the normal soldiers. 3. The horsemen are surrounded by cannons and ripped to shreds. It’s worth noting that the horsemen still ride “boldy… and well” – they don’t get scared, they’re brave and courageous. 4. The horsemen attack the gunners with their swords. (I guess they don’t have guns…) Then they turn and ride back again, but there’s not six hundred of them any more. 5. The horsemen are surrounded by cannons again as they run away. “All that was left of them” die — the heroes and the horses. 6. This last stanza is a bit different: it’s finished describing the charge, a
