Casabianca Poem Analysis - 925 Words

lizabeth Bishop’s use of diction and allusion in â€Å"Casabianca† with strong word choices pushes the structure of the poem to convey the message of loyalty and sacrifice, as the boy stays on the burning ship of his own free will since The main purpose is so he can feels the honored based on his actions and duties on the French naval ship. Literally, the strong message conveyed is treating this as a funeral with a sad and strong remembrance in which the boy’s life is taken away by his instincts toward his father. loses his life on the burning ship. (1\2) As a matter of fact, this sad remembrance of the boy puts into signifies how history will never forget his the boy’s bravery as a French crewman in order to pass this significant moment to†¦show more content†¦(3\5), he or she evokes figuratively by signifying the way of how there is tenderness among his heart. When there is tenderness among his own heart, it affects his own instincts because he really has his own love and affection with the poor burning French ship. Although on the burning ship, the boy should be escaping from the burning ship, it is ironic to see how he does not react that he should escape to safety even though the ship is burning and sinking because of his own deep empathy of trying to save the burning ship. To add on, when using strong emotional words to show visual imagery such as â€Å"poor ship in flames† (5) to refer to how the boy â€Å"stood† on the burning ship (4), Here, this kind of tragic moment treats this like two beloved individuals wanting to die together to keep their love relationship in tact. Here, Elizabeth implies how the boy wanted to keep an eternity of love and loyalty in tact with the French ship and father with his own sacrifice. Not only that, as the poet uses the parallel structure throughout the poem when he is using the apostrophe on â€Å"love’s (10)†, he or she is reinforcing the loyalty that the boy has into swearing toward his oath of his father. Because love is stuck in his feeling of heart, he feels the insight that his own loyalty toward his father can have into dragging him down into the gateway to death. As so, he doesn’t realize it because he really shows the devotion of waiting for his next orders from his father even