Editing Felicia Hemans (section)

==''Casabianca''==
[[File:Portrait of Felicia Dorothea Hemans (4670849).jpg|thumb|Portrait of Felicia Dorothea Hemans c.1820]]
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First published in August 1826 the poem ''[[Casabianca (poem)|Casabianca]]'' (also known as ''The Boy stood on the Burning Deck'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://readytogoebooks.com/FH-casabianca.jpg|format=JPG|title=Casablanca : Image|website=Readytogoebooks.com|access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref> by Hemans depicts Captain [[Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca]] and his 12-year-old son, Giocante, who both perished aboard the ship ''[[French ship Orient (1791)|Orient]]'' during the [[Battle of the Nile]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mostert |first=Noel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oS1YTrIvuJ8C&q=casabianca |title=The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815 |date=2008-07-17 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-11401-0 |language=en}}</ref> The poem was very popular from the 1850s on and was memorized in elementary schools for literary practice. Other poetic figures such as [[Elizabeth Bishop]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monteiro |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-1WfrA-mnUC&dq=Hemans++Casabianca+Elizabeth+Bishop&pg=PA154 |title=Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed |date=2012-09-18 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9129-2 |language=en}}</ref> and [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]] allude to the poem in their own works.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harris |first=John Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfY_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Hemans++Casabianca+Samuel+Butler&pg=PA225 |title=Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon: the Man and His Work |date=1916 |publisher=Grant Richards |language=en}}</ref>

"'Speak, Father!' once again he cried / 'If I may yet be gone! / And'—but the booming shots replied / And fast the flames rolled on."{{ws|[[s:Felicia Hemans in The Monthly Magazine Volume 2 1826/Casabianca|'Casabianca' by Felicia Hemans]]}}

The poem is sung in ballad form (abab) and consists of a boy asking his father whether he had fulfilled his duties, as the ship continues to burn until the magazine catches fire. Hemans adds the following note to the poem: 'Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the ''Orient'', remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.'<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robson |first=Catherine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.cttq94zs |title=Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem |date=2012 |publisher=Princeton University Press |jstor=j.cttq94zs |isbn=978-0-691-11936-6}}</ref>

[[Martin Gardner]] included Casabianca in his collection of <nowiki>''Best Remembered Poems''</nowiki>, along with a childhood parody.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gardner |first=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUG8AQAAQBAJ&dq=casabianca+parody+Martin+Gardner,&pg=PT113 |title=Best Remembered Poems |date=2012-06-19 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-11640-2 |language=en}}</ref> Michael R. Turner included it among the "improving gems" of his 1967 <nowiki>''Parlour Poetry''</nowiki>.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Michael R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tt4qAAAAMAAJ&q=Michael+R.+Turner+parody+hemans+casabianca |title=Parlour Poetry: A Hundred and One Improving Gems |date=1967 |publisher=Joseph |language=en}}</ref>  Others wrote modern-day parodies that were much more upbeat and consisted of boys stuffing their faces with peanuts and bread.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-08-27 |title=THIS MONTH'S PARODY (August) Casabianca ('The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck') |url=https://jeremynicholas.com/2012/08/months-parody-august/ |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Jeremy Nicholas. Founded 1947 |language=en-GB}}</ref> These contrast sharply with the dramatic image created in Hemans' Casabianca.