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=="Casabianca"==
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* mixing ballad meter with orientalism
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* story of filial devotion past death, nobility
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With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
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That well had borne their part -
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But the noblest thing which perish'd there
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Was that young and faithful heart!
  
 
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Poetry

"Casabianca"

  • mixing ballad meter with orientalism
  • story of filial devotion past death, nobility
With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part -
But the noblest thing which perish'd there
Was that young and faithful heart!

Context

  • from Charles's seminar:
    • FH is representative of a type of piety that gets articulated in Anglo-American poetry
    • Elizabeth Gray, NZ scholar: second wave feminsm takes for granted that women's religious poetry participates in patriarchy: taking it away takes away the most salient position from which these women could speak