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CASABIANCA (POEM)
Words And Meaning
Ø ABOUT THE POETESS:
This poem is
written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835). She was born at Liverpool but
brought up at Wales. Her poetic style can be compared with Long Fellow’s poetic
style.
Ø ABOUT THE POEM:
The poem is
full of imagination and sound. The poetess tried to evoke the sensory
experiences. The boy is shouting out for his father throughout the poem. As he
did not believe that his father is dead. He has a strong faith in his father
and when the ship exploded with the boom poetess added an image of wind
carrying the debris of the ship and the gallant child. She said that the
noblest thing that perished there was a faithful heart.
The language used
here is narrative. The poetess was feeling sorrow over the boy’s death, so the
tone of the poem is also sorrowful sighs.
Ø SUMMARY OF CASABIANCA:
The poem starts
with image of the young boys’ lonely on the flaming deck. All men ran away in
order to save their lives and the flames are surrounding him. The boy Casabianca
was the son of the captain stood boldly and bravely as his father ordered him
to stand here. It looks that he is the creature of the heroic blood, although
he was a little boy.
The flames were
surrounding fast, but he did not escape without his father’s permission. He was
not able to hear the voice of his father anymore and he did not want to believe
that his father had died.
He was calling
him loudly so that he could not know that his task was done or not. But he did
not know that the chief of the ship is unconscious of his son, whom he assigned
a duty at the deck. He cried again and asked if he could leave the deck, as the
flames were moving fast toward him, but he could not find an answer. He was
feeling the heat of the fire on his brows and hairs, but he still was standing
on the deck bravely and despair.
Once again he
shouted loud and asked his father to stand at the deck. The flames of the fire
covered him the sail and the rope was also burning fast. The whole ship was on
fire and the flag which was too high got the fire.
Then the ship
got busted with a thunder sound. The poetess expressed her sorrow in one line;
“The boy. Oh! Where was
he?”
The ship and
the boy disappeared and sea was covered with the broken pieces of ship and certainly
the parts of the boy’s body also. The wind was carrying the ashes and the
particles also. But the poetess considerately saying that, the noblest thing which
was destroyed here was the young faithful heart of the boy.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Q1: Who has written the poem Casabianca?
Ans. The poem Casabianca has been written by Felicia Dorothea
Hemans. She was an English poetess.
Q2: What is the central idea of the poem
Casabianca? Or what lesson do you learn from Casabianca?
Ans. The poem Casabianca gives an idea of the strong faith,
obedience and the responsibility. The poetess conveys the idea that one should
follow the rules and perform his duty with responsibility. It is the need of
the society in need or emergency or war as well as the time of peace. The poetess
also teaches the theme of self-sacrifice while obeying and performing duties.
Therefore we can say that the poem Casabianca teaches us the lesson of
the obedience, heroism, self-discipline and self-sacrifice.
Q3: Who was Casabianca? Why did he
not leave the deck?
Ans. Casabianca was an obedient and brave boy, who showed great responsibility and
great bravery on the deck. He was the son of the captain of the battle ship. He
was standing on the burning deck of the ship because he was following the order
of his father and performing his duty on the burning deck of the ship. The boy
could not imagined that his father had died and remained standing on the deck of
the ship and sacrificed his life.
Q4: What were the qualities of the
boy Casabianca as shown in the poem “Casabianca?”
Ans. According to the poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca was
a creator of heroic blood. His father was also patriotic and brave who sacrificed
his life in performing his duties with responsibility. Casabianca being the
son of that brave man, stood along the burning deck of the ship which was a ‘lone
post of death’. He therefore sacrificed his life in obedience.
Q5: “But the noblest thing that perished
there, was the young faithful heart!”, explain these lines with reference to context?
Ans. In this line the poetess described the heroism of the brave boy Casabianca.
After the explosion, all the ship was crashed and its parts were scattered
over the whole sea. The only thing left was pieces of the wreckage ship. The
poetess was expressing the grief over the death of little brave child and in
her point of view, the most valuable thing destroyed there was the heart of that
noblest boy.
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