Tennyson's Poems
the charge of the light brigade
why does the poet say that someone had 'blunder'd'?
why does the poet say that someone had 'blunder'd'?
This apparently relates to the battle. It is said that Tennyson read a newspaper article about the Battle of Balaclava, where the charge took place, and wrote this poem within a matter of minutes. Tennyson’s son said later that the phrase from the article “some hideous blunder” caught his imagination; in the poem Tennyson’s words are “some one had blunder’d.”