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In his poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Tennyson dubbed this hollow "The Valley of Death". The opposing Russian forces were commanded by Pavel Liprandi.
I. 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. Rode the six hundred. II. “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew. Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply,
Tennyson, who was Poet Laureate for a record 42 years, wrote the poem in response to a very specific event, and it was this event that inspired the lines, ‘Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.’. Let’s take a look at the poem, and the event.
Lines from the poem are frequently referenced in To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf. The poem is recited by Alfalfa in Two Too Young (1936). The photograph Into the Jaws of Death (1944) depicting the Normandy landings in World War II is titled after a line in the poem's third stanza.
Rode the six hundred. The speaker reveals the subject of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade,’ which is the six hundred men who rode to their deaths. He claims that they were marching straight into the Valley of Death. The Valley of Death, of course, is a biblical reference to Psalm 23.
1892. 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.
I. 1 Half a league, half a league, 2 Half a league onward, 3 All in the valley of Death. 4 Rode the six hundred. 5 “Forward, the Light Brigade! 6 Charge for the guns!” he said. 7 Into the valley of Death.
