writing Charge of the Light Brigade: My Version

[Caesar2013 22]

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" is a poem about the charge of British Calvalry during the Crimean War. The poem itself was written by Lord Alfred Tennyson (Who also wrote the poem 'Ullysses' also one you should look at). For English we had to pick a poem and describe it. I chose to poemception it (that is write a poem about a poem), here is what I wrote:



 

"There is a battle afoot

The horsemen rode forward

The brigade is ordered out

 

The 600 rode out

Obeying foolish orders

Their moment of triumph

Their moment of death

They obeyed their master's whim

 

The Russians shot their guns

The Calvalry charged faster

as they rode across the open plain

 

The horsemen fought

sword to sword, sabre to sabre

Brave men died

as death overcame them

 

The horsemen not knowing

immortalized their name

with a foolhardy charge."

It's not very good, but I didn't tthink it was too bad for someone who doesn't write much poetry.