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    English Language and Literature, Asserts That The Poem "Cannot Be

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    Foltinek asserts that Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" should not be dismissed as merely celebrating battle, and provides reasons why Tennyson may have written it, such as feeling duty-bound as poet laureate. While the poem fails to fully address the blunder that led to senseless deaths, Foltinek says it illustrates the human condition of its time. Saintsbury notes that Tennyson struggled with quick meters, which did not serve the poem well, and after World War I the poem was criticized for glorifying heroic yet senseless death.

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    Foltinek asserts that Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" should not be dismissed as merely celebrating battle, and provides reasons why Tennyson may have written it, such as feeling duty-bound as poet laureate. While the poem fails to fully address the blunder that led to senseless deaths, Foltinek says it illustrates the human condition of its time. Saintsbury notes that Tennyson struggled with quick meters, which did not serve the poem well, and after World War I the poem was criticized for glorifying heroic yet senseless death.

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    Foltinek asserts that Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" should not be dismissed as merely celebrating battle, and provides reasons why Tennyson may have written it, such as feeling duty-bound as poet laureate. While the poem fails to fully address the blunder that led to senseless deaths, Foltinek says it illustrates the human condition of its time. Saintsbury notes that Tennyson struggled with quick meters, which did not serve the poem well, and after World War I the poem was criticized for glorifying heroic yet senseless death.

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    Foltinek asserts that Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" should not be dismissed as merely celebrating battle, and provides reasons why Tennyson may have written it, such as feeling duty-bound as poet laureate. While the poem fails to fully address the blunder that led to senseless deaths, Foltinek says it illustrates the human condition of its time. Saintsbury notes that Tennyson struggled with quick meters, which did not serve the poem well, and after World War I the poem was criticized for glorifying heroic yet senseless death.

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    Herbert Foltinek - in a 1985 essay from A Yearbook of Studies in

    English Language and Literature, asserts that the poem “cannot be


    all that easily dismissed as a collection of sabre-rattling
    sentiments.” The critic explains that there are a number of reasons
    why the poet may have written this poem in praise of a battle that
    ended in senseless defeat. “As poet laureate, he might ... have felt
    called upon to compose a tribute to the Queen’s troops who had
    fought so bravely for a good cause.” Foltinek also mentions a
    tendency that the British have to “glory in defeat.” Another
    possibility that he considers is that Tennyson may have started the
    poem to protest the “blunder” he had read about in the paper,
    which led to the Light Brigade’s defeat, but in writing it found
    himself swept up in his own noble tone. Because the poem fails to
    fully address the responsibility for a “blunder” which led to hundreds
    of senseless deaths, Foltinek declares, “The Charge of the Light
    Brigade” “falls short of illustrating the human condition of our time.”

    In an 1895 essay from his Corrected Impressions: Essays on


    Victorian Writers, critic George Saintsbury notes that “at no time
    was Tennyson a perfect master of the quick and lively measures” or
    meters, and adds that “his difficulty in this respect has not improved
    ’The Charge of the Light Brigade.’” The theme of the poem has also
    come under criticism; following World War I, after the world had
    experienced the horror and destruction of war on a previously
    unheard of scale, critics abandoned this poem due to its glorification
    of heroic, senseless death.

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