This is a blog about language—word and phrase origins, grammar and punctuation, writing tips, language use, misuse and abuse, as well as words in general. Brought to you by an expatriate instructor of English. It is concerned with mainly English, as well as the way English interacts with other languages. http://www.smallpressexchange.com Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:07:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.smallpressexchange.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=alfred-lord-tennyson-as-anti-war-activist.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>I always felt that Tennyson's &quot;Charge of the Light Brigade&quot; was an anti-war poem. </p><br/><p>A friend argues the opposite, stating that the poem reflected the jingoistic nature and sentimentality of Victorian England. </p><br/><p>What do you think? </p><br/><br/><p>Half a league, half a league, <br /><br/>Half a league onward, <br /><br/>All in the valley of Death <br /><br/>Rode the six hundred. <br /><br/>&quot;Forward, the Light Brigade! <br /><br/>&quot;Charge for the guns!&quot; he said: <br /><br/>Into th [...] stevenl