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"The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attent

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  • "The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living, in the same way that he evoked Tommy Atkins in "The Absent Minded Beggar". (en)
  • «Последние из лёгкой бригады» — стихотворение, написанное в 1890 году Редьярдом Киплингом по мотивам событий Восточной (Крымской) войны и обыгрывающая дальнейшее развитие сюжета (спустя тридцать шесть лет после события) знаменитой поэмы Альфреда Теннисона «Атака легкой бригады». (ru)
  • The Last of the Light Brigade é um poema escrito em 1891 por Rudyard Kipling tendo por base o poema The Charge of the Light Brigade, escrito 40 anos antes por Alfred Tennyson. Com uso de sinédoque, Kipling usa o seu poema para expor a terrível dureza dos veteranos da Guerra da Crimeia, tal como exemplificado pelos homens da cavalaria que participaram na carga da Brigada Ligeira durante a Batalha de Balaclava. (pt)
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  • «Последние из лёгкой бригады» — стихотворение, написанное в 1890 году Редьярдом Киплингом по мотивам событий Восточной (Крымской) войны и обыгрывающая дальнейшее развитие сюжета (спустя тридцать шесть лет после события) знаменитой поэмы Альфреда Теннисона «Атака легкой бригады». (ru)
  • The Last of the Light Brigade é um poema escrito em 1891 por Rudyard Kipling tendo por base o poema The Charge of the Light Brigade, escrito 40 anos antes por Alfred Tennyson. Com uso de sinédoque, Kipling usa o seu poema para expor a terrível dureza dos veteranos da Guerra da Crimeia, tal como exemplificado pelos homens da cavalaria que participaram na carga da Brigada Ligeira durante a Batalha de Balaclava. (pt)
  • "The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attent (en)
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  • The Last of the Light Brigade (pt)
  • The Last of the Light Brigade (ru)
  • The Last of the Light Brigade (en)
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