The poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson is about a battle in which a commander makes a misstep and orders his men to move forward with a defensive strategy that would result in their imminent death. As the poem continues, it tells us that we should honor these men because even though they knew their leader had made a decision that would change their lives, they followed through with it because he was their leader. Tennyson uses personification, metaphor, imagery, symbolism, and anaphora to take the reader back in time and help them understand the reason for their tragic end. There are three main themes in this poem and they are respect and reputation, duty and war. In the poem Alfred says: "Not though the soldier knew that someone had made a mistake: to them not to answer, to them not to explain why, to them but to die: into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." example of respect and reputation. Although the soldiers knew that their superior had given them a disastrous command, they followed him...