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What is it about? Tennyson wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade after reading a newspaper report about the Battle of Balaclava in 1854.

Annick S is a French tutor and Tutorfair Foundation volunteer. With exam season fast approaching, she offers her top French exam tips.

Shelley's poem imagines a meeting between the narrator and a 'traveller' who describes a ruined statue he - or she - saw in the middle of a desert somewhere. The description of the statue is a meditation on the fragility of human power and on the effects of time.

When We Two Parted recalls the end of a previous relationship that the narrator (or Byron himself) still feels sad and regretful about.

The poem tells the story of a Japanese kamikaze pilot who failed to carry out his suicide mission and instead returned home in dishonour.

Bayonet Charge describes the few desperate moments of a soldier's charge against a defended position, dramatising the feelings of fear, dislocation.

Storm on the Island is a dramatic monologue from the perspective of an villager on a remote island about the storms his community face and their effects.