Consider the speakers in “the charge of the light brigade” and “the battle of blenheim.”
write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the voice in these two poems. how does each poet give his speaker a distinctive voice? what effect does this voice have on the poem?

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Comparing  

       The similarities between “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” and “The Battle of Blenheim” are striking. Here are some of the similarities that I found in the poem. The first similarity that I found was that the two poems both use meter and tone to convey the main idea in the poems. Another one I found was two poems also explain the horrors of the two battles. In stanza nine-line three and four Kasper explains the “shocking sight” of the battlefield with thousands of bodies rotting in the sun. “For many thousand bodies here/Lay rotting in the sun;” In “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” stanza five-line one to six explains that the cannons were firing everywhere and everyone firing loud blasts. Many gunshots were made, and many heroes died. “Cannon to right of them, /Cannon to the left of them, /Cannon behind them/Volleyed and thundered;/Stormed at with shot and shell, /While horse and hero fell. /They that had fought so well/Came through the jaws of Death, /Back from the mouth of hell,”.

Contrasting  

          The two poems “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and “The Battle of Blenheim” by Robert Southey although they have some similarities they also have some things that make them different. One of the differences that I found in the two poems is that the reader has two very different views of the two poems. In “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” the reader see everything like they are in a battle with the soldiers. But in “The Battle of Blenheim” the reader views part the poem as Kasper is telling them a story. Another difference between the two poems is the settings at the beginning of the poems. In stanza one line one to four, it is a summer evening Kasper just finished his work and is sitting in the sun. “It was a summer evening, /Old Kaspar’s work was done, /And he before/his cottage door/Was sitting in the sun,” But in “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” stanza one lines one to six the six hundred are riding to “the valley of Death”’ “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.”

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explanation:

read the following excerpt from “greece” by oscar wilde.

the sea was sapphire [colored], and the sky

burned like a heated opal through the air;

we hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair

for the blue lands that to the eastward lie.

which words does the poet include to the reader visualize the scene?

“the sea was sapphire”

“through the air”

“was blowing fair”

“to the eastward lie”

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)