d, best selling poets of her generation as well as one if the first women to make a living by publishing her writing. Hemans emerged as a successful "poetess" and was celebrated. Her poetry was so popular that many were public favourites, memorised, and some even set to music. Poems such Casabianca and England's Dead classified Hemans a poet of imperial and domestic ideology. Hemans work demonstrates many of the traditional genres of the time such as nation and the individual, war and peace, the lives of female domestic lives, and the child martyr. A prime example of this is in the poem Casabianca: The boy stood on the burning deckWhence all but he had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.Yet beautiful and bright he stood,As born to rule the storm -A creature of heroic blood,A proud, though child-like form.The flames rolled on - he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.He called aloud:- 'Say, father, sayIf yet my task is done!'He knew not that the chieftain layUnconscious of his son.'Speak, father!' once again he cried,'If I may yet be gone!'And but the booming shots repliedAnd fast the flames rolled on.Upon his brow he felt their breath,And in his waiving hair,And looked from that lone post of deathIn still yet brave despair;And shouted but once more aloud,'My father! must I stay?'While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud,The wreathing fires made way.They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,They caught the flag on high,And streamed above the gallant childLike banners in the sky.There came a burst of thunder-sound-The boy-oh! where was he?Ask of the winds that far aroundWith fragments strewed the sea!-With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,That well had borne their part;But the noblest thing which perished thereWas that young faithful heart!This relation of a child dying is a common theme of romantic poetry. This poem tells a tale of war and fam...
