Literary Analyses

ST.JOHN SCHOOL High School Department San Juan, San Ildefonso, Bulacan

LITERARY ANALYSES The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife Manuel Arguilla To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee

The King’s Speech Tom Hooper

In partial fulfillment to the requirements in ENGLISH IV- WORLD LITERATURE Submitted by: Benjamin J. EscarchaJr.

Submitted to: Mr. Allan Jason Punzalan Sarmiento

December 2012

Poetry Analysis: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” Alfred Lord Tennyson

I
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
II
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
III
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of