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"Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826. [1] The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. It is written in ballad meter with the rhyme scheme ABAB. It is ...
The English poet Felicia Hemans made the death of Giocante Casabianca the subject of her poem "Casabianca" in 1826, with its line "The boy stood on the burning deck ...", which became a classic of English literature and was studied in elementary school classes. At least six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Casabianca. [1]
The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads , a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a ...
Book cover of a Penguin Books edition.. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes.Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers ...
Camille de Casabianca (born 1960), French filmmaker and writer; Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca (1762–1798), French Navy officer; Paul de Casabianca (1839–1916), French lawyer, Senator of Corsica from 1885 to 1903; Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca (1738–1825), French general
Rhetorical question: asking a question as a way of asserting something. Asking a question that already has the answer hidden in it, or asking a question not to get an answer, but to assert something (or to create a poetic effect). Satire: humoristic criticism of society. Sesquipedalianism: use of long and obscure words.
The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; Twit. Average Earthman 10:41, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC) That's Casabazonka by Spike Milligan. BTW the punctuation at the end of the second line should be an em-dash, not a semicolon. -- 217.171.129.71 11:05, 27 April 2008 (UTC) And slightly longer... The boy sat in the dining hall