Talk:The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)

I have moved the information about the poem to this page, and am going to work on making it into an article. There isn't a whole lot to write, but I think it deserves a page by itself, so here goes. --Mathwizard1232 02:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Artwork?

I know I've seen some artwork on the internet about this famous charge, but can anybody confirm it is in the public domain and then post it? (or try to get the author to put it under the GPL) Sire22 16:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

What sort of "artwork" were you thinking of? There are some paintings and pictures of the battlefield in the main article about the Charge of the Light Brigade -- SteveCrook 18:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

The use of Fenton's "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death" is erroneous. 1

The poem itself

The poem itself must be in the public domain by now. Why not just include it on the page? - 65.116.35.251 22:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

See WP:L&P. The poem is probably too long for this article. There is, of course, a link to the Wikisource which includes the full text. --Midnightdreary 03:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

The editors of Charge of the Light Brigade included the whole text. It's a few screenfuls, but it makes the "References in Popular Culture" lines easier to read (several of which should probably be on this page instead, as they refer to the poem) JohnWhitlock (talk) 21:56, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The article is about the poem, but I don't think it's sensible to include the whole thing - that's what Wikisource is for. It makes especially little sense to include it in the article about the charge itself. I've removed the text from both articles. Hairy Dude (talk) 13:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Famous lines

Should include the lines "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die"... AnonMoos (talk) 12:55, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

See also

Maybe see also Leichte_Kavallerie? AnonMoos (talk) 12:57, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

text

Shouldn't the article have the full text of the poem. 155.212.94.216 (talk) 17:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Nope, fun (read stupid) wiki rules. It was considered (by someone) to be to long for the article. Lord knows, it is perfectly acceptable and encyclopedic for an article to refer to a line in a poem and not tell what the line acually is. Sadly, I can not list the third stanza of it from memory. Only one poem I could, actually.

                                          07:52, 2 November 2008 (UTC)Strife

bad poem

Why no mention that it's actually a very bad poem? It is metrically unsound, it has no musicality to speak of, and the diction ("someone had blundered") is just plain awful. The poem only survives (and was only ever popular) because of the patriotism it appealed to and aroused, certainly not because of any artistic merit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.163.106.71 (talk) 14:11, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

You'd have to find some kind of source for that, you can't just say something that loaded.129.171.233.78 (talk) 14:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Especially since the poem is actually a meditation on the conflict between patriotism and common sense. It's as much an anti-war poem as it is a celebration of British national pride. Also, technically Wikipedia isn't *supposed* to contain any simple opinions in the body of the article. Now, if you wanted to create a section for the article entitled "Criticisms", that'd be fine, but you'd also find yourself swamped with criticisms OF the criticisms. And it's not supposed to be "metrically sound" -- it's supposed to have a basic form which is interrupted by incongruous and jarring parts, much the way a mounted charge in 19th century warfare would have sounded. 134.173.13.19 (talk) 00:49, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Thin Lizzy connection

"Massacre" based on "The Charge of the Light Brigade"? Are you kidding me? The song is obviously about Indians. I mean, the intro melody has a pretty "indian" feel, mention of buffalos and canyons - standard western motifs. Or, just listen to what the guys from the band have to say (around the 2:15 mark). I'm gonna remove that line from the article. Roda (talk) 21:55, 11 March 2010 (UTC)