And so, in conclusion, from the aforementioned, br it can be ascertained that the Light Brigade - which br the reader will discern was the moniker applied to a cavalry br unit of courageous soldiers - was attacked on both sides br by their adversarial enemy as they rode their horses br in a downhill fashion into a valley. The poet calls it the br “Valley of Death” but that is highly unlikely to be the br actual name of the valley. We can infer from the br utilization of the valley’s title in this manner that the br poet was in actual fact using the phrase metaphorically br in order to indicate to the reader that members of the br cavalry unit were being shot and killed by the br enemy in that particular location. This is in contrast to br Twain’s metaphorical river that Huck and Jim go br down but are not shot at.