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Structure

the regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables meter the regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

a group of uninterrupted sounds syllable a group of uninterrupted sounds

syllable many 2

syllable surpass 2

syllable wonderful 3

syllable delicious 3

syllable hypocritical 5

syllable many man´•y

syllable surpass sur•pass´

syllable wonderful won´•der•ful

syllable delicious de•li´•cious

syllable hypocritical hy•po•crit´•i•cal

Iambic: (u /) a-bout Trochaic: (/ u) mon-sters Anapestic: (u u /) un-der-stand Dactylic: (/ u u ) mur-mur-ing Spondaic: ( // ) pen-guin Pyrrhic: (u u) in the

Anapestic/Dactylic-happier, faster Iambic/Trochaic-regular rhythm, sometimes more serious

one foot monometer two feet dimeter three feet trimeter four feet tetrameter five feet pentameter six feet hexameter seven feet septameter eight feet octameter

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charge "The Light Brigade" of the by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate of England Poetic spokesman of the Victorian Age

Date: 1853-1856 Event: Crimean War Conflict: England, France, and Sardinia Piedmont vs. Russia

673 men were in the light brigade. 113 died in the charge. 134 were wounded in the charge. 475 horses were killed.

All that were left of them…

Valley of Death

REPETITION is effective! (Example-Ps. 136)

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

“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d. Theirs is not to make reply, Theirs is not to question why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

FAMOUS LINES: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to question why, Theirs but to do and die.

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley’d and thundered;

ALLITERATION: “Storm’d at with shot and shell” “While horse and hero fell”

PERSONIFICATION: They that had fought so well Came thro’ the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.

meter: iambic—serious dactylic—galloping trimeter—sense of urgency

George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 At 10, uncle died and he became the 6th Lord Byron. Had a clubfoot: this pushed him to be very athletic: expert boxer, fencer, horseman, and a powerful swimmer. He had a magnetic personality and women thought he was a very handsome. Because he was less than circumspect in his relationships with marriage was forced to leave England. He assisted in the Greek war for independence from the Turks (Worn out from the war, he became sick and died just after his 36th birthday). The Greeks think of him as a hero. The embodiment of the Byronic hero: tortured, passionate, moody, remorseful, unrepentant wanderer.

"The Destruction of Sennacherib" by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four-score and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. Isaiah 37:36

the ruler of Assyria in the seventh century B.C. Sennacherib the ruler of Assyria in the seventh century B.C.

Assyria

Assyrian city on the Tigris River Ashur Assyrian city on the Tigris River

Ashur

definition ’ c simile a comparison using like or as

The Assyrian came down The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,

And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,

Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, / That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!