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The Charge of the Light Brigade is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade
Tennyson's poem, published December 9, 1854 in The Examiner, praises the Brigade, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!", while mourning the appalling futility of the charge: "Not tho' the soldier knew, someone had blunder'd… Charging an army, while all the world wonder'd." Tennyson wrote the poem inside only a few minutes after reading an account of the battle in The Times, according to his grandson Sir Charles Tennyson. It immediately became hugely popular, even reaching the troops in the Crimea, where it was distributed in pamphlet form.
An audio recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade, made in 1890 on a wax cylinder, is available online [1]
Kipling's response
In 1881, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem in response, entitled The Last of the Light Brigade, which attempted to shame the British public by depicting the difficult conditions suffered by the survivors of the Light Brigade.
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