The Charge Of The Light Brigade, And Black Umbrellas

Poems can be written in many different ways resulting in a change of feel while reading the poem. In the poems “At Woodward’s Gardens”, ‘Mending Wall”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, and “Black Umbrellas” each writer comes at writing a poem differently, but no matter how the writers write their poems they still get their message out. Some of these poems focus on the story while others focus on the message. “At Woodward’s Gardens” tells the story of two boys making piece of glass and making it reflect light onto two monkeys, burning them. As the boys are doing this they get too close to the cage and the monkeys snatch the glass. After looking at the piece of glass for a minute the monkeys break it. The monkeys may not have known what is was or why it burned them, but they did understand that is was dangerous so they broke it to protect themselves. This poem has a story but also shows the reader how animals can be more intelligent than we think. …show more content…
No soldiers disobeyed this command and had full trust in their commander. As they continued on they were shot, but this did not stop them from persevering. They used their swords to fight, but they were outnumbered; only a few men survived. This shows the soldier’s loyalty to their commander. This poem is similar to “At Woodward’s Gardens” because it focuses on the story, both have a discrete message. The message in “At Woodward’s Gardens” is knowledge is not power and trusting your instincts is key. The message in “Valley of Death” is always trust your superiors, no matter how crazy the task they ask you to preform