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Berconius
2:40 am | October 19, 2003
Deep. Very well concieved. the excecution of it could be better but that's hard to specify. The repeition of the word "why" is a distinct motif that is strong. However, it is also a bit tedious in the long run.

Keep writing! grunt brigade is presently my favorite series. You seem to be out shining Wado.

That's right, Wado, the pressure's on! O-O;
Bean
11:47 am | October 15, 2003
that's one of the best poems I've read.
Good job walker
Oswald
11:24 am | October 15, 2003
Very good! You know, I love to read all kinds of literature, since I am a person who specializes in this topic. In all of my time, this is one of the most glorious, excellent, fantastic, glamorous, admirable, inspiring, motivating, lavish, descriptive, grand poems I have ever read. All I have to say is... it is perfecto.

12 yrs. old
Alpha Lance
10:39 pm | October 14, 2003
Now that is one hell of a poem! I can't give you nothing higher than a perfect ten out of ten.
MasterGrunt
11:40 am | October 14, 2003
Interesting. And also touching.
Mainevent
5:17 pm | October 13, 2003
Mah new favorite poem.
Walker
5:04 pm | October 13, 2003
Yeah, that's where I got the title from, the movie, the battle, the Crimean War and Tennyson's poem:

"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:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred."

-Lord Alfred Tennyson

I love that poem.
Mainevent
4:12 pm | October 13, 2003
No, I meant did you get your Idea for Charge of the Grunt Brigade from Charge of the Light Brigade?

It was a show on History channel about fighters in.....I forget what war.
Yeah, that's what I say when I'm too lazy to write out the title or even just Grunt Brigade.
2:38 pm | October 13, 2003
Semper Fi

-Walker
Mainevent
2:36 pm | October 13, 2003
Can't read all of it....so....long......

And did you get COTGB from Charge of the light brigade?
Walker
12:18 pm | October 13, 2003
*Takes a bow* I'm so glad you liked it. And I'm so sad that COTGB Part 3 didn't get posted. Where'd it go? Any guesses?
SOS.Odin
3:21 am | October 13, 2003
10/10
all i gotta say
Jamirus99
2:09 am | October 13, 2003
Hey now! Extremely deep! Were you talking about Reach or Earth? Very good all the same, can't beleive how you've imporved, Walker.


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