Felicia Heman/Casabianca

Felicia Heman was a far cry from what we have seen so far by a woman. Her poems are totally opposite from what we see in the writing of Dorothy Wordsworth. Her past relationships with men obviously had a lot to do with what she wrote about. Most of the poems that were written by Heman were all condescending to men. The poem Casabianca was a different type of poem. She seemed concerned, and showed a form of compassion towards the young boy, but she still made him out to be senseless. The young boy had been aboard a ship and there had apparently been a battle and his father was dying and could not speak. The son was so used to getting orders from his father that he did not move without the father telling him to go. I am not sure if she wrote this poem to show that inevitably no matter what the situation may be that men are never able to make good decisions or if she just heard of this story and felt compelled to write about it. he wrote in two stanzas;"Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm"... in this passage she builds the child up with brave, manly qualities. In the next few stanzas she begins to make references to the father; "The flames roll'd on-he would not go, Without his father's word".. This makes reference to the father having given the child commands that have failed him and makes him not be able to think on his own. She was somewhat witty in getting her message across.