In the article, “Their's Not to Reason Why': Alfred Lord Tennyson on the Human Condition” by Foltinek, Foltinek digged into the motive behind Tennyson writing of “Charge of the Light Brigade”. In Foltineks’ analysis of the poem many of the current events that were happening at that moment were included; thus he used new historicism to examine the piece of literature. While the poem can be interpreted in various ways, when using historicism to observe it, the reconnection to the time period allows for deeper heroic emotions to prevail. As Foltinek stated, “The role of fate, as Tennyson may have seen it, concerned only the suffering men, who rode to their doom in full awareness of the folly of the instruction” Tennyson could have very easily
