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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Rode the six hundred?
1) Does "Was there a man dismayed" mean "Was there a man among you (the riders of the light brigade) dismayed"?
2) Does "Not though the soldiers knew
Some one had blundered:" mean
"although the riders/soldiers didn't know that someone had made a big mistake"?
3) Does "Theirs not to make reply" mean "the riders (of the light brigade) need not the reply"?
4) Does "Theirs but to do and die" mean "what they need to do is 'to do it' and 'sacrifice'"?
5) Does "Rode the six hundred" mean "the six hundred riders rode charging"?
Context:
To be fair, I don't think the preacher thought he was serving up
a religious message. It was probably more military than religious,
in the spirit of Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade', which he
may well have quoted:
'Forward the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldiers knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
2) Does "Not though the soldiers knew
Some one had blundered:" mean
"although the riders/soldiers didn't know that someone had made a big mistake"?
3) Does "Theirs not to make reply" mean "the riders (of the light brigade) need not the reply"?
4) Does "Theirs but to do and die" mean "what they need to do is 'to do it' and 'sacrifice'"?
5) Does "Rode the six hundred" mean "the six hundred riders rode charging"?
Context:
To be fair, I don't think the preacher thought he was serving up
a religious message. It was probably more military than religious,
in the spirit of Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade', which he
may well have quoted:
'Forward the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldiers knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Top answer
NL888 1) Does "Was there a man dismayed" mean "Was there a man among you (the riders of the light brigade) dismayed"? Yes. NL888 2) Does "Not though the soldiers knewSome one had blundered:" mean "although the riders/soldiers didn't know that someone had made a big mistake"?
- NL888 1) Does "Was there a man dismayed" mean "Was there a man among you (the riders of the light brigade) dismayed"?
- Yes.
- NL888 2) Does "Not though the soldiers knewSome one had blundered:" mean "although the riders/soldiers didn't know that someone had made a big mistake"?
- They knew that someone had blundered.
- NL888 3) Does "Theirs not to make reply" mean "the riders (of the light brigade) need not the reply"?
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NL8881) Does "Was there a man dismayed" mean "Was there a man among you (the riders of the light brigade) dismayed"?Yes.
NL8882) Does "Not though the soldiers knewSome one had blundered:" mean "although the riders/soldiers didn't know that someone had made a big mistake"?They knewthat someone had blundered.
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