Captain Cook (Letitia Elizabeth Landon c.1820)

“To us seemed like a sailors, mid the storm and strife”

• simile

• Pathetic fallacy to set a chaotic foreshadowing imagery

• Idealises sailing and adventure as children, shows children’s naiveness to the dangers and innocence

“There is not of that garden a single tree or flower”

• References contextual agricultural depression

• Shows feelings of sadness as romantic poets (like her) love nature (shows destruction of her childhood)

“They have plough’d its long green grasses”

• metaphor

• “Long green grasses” she’s used beautiful nature (romantic peot feature) to describe her beautiful relationship with her brother

• “Plough’d” is harsh/ destructive, destruction of the relationship with her brother

“Within that lonely garden what happy hours went by”

• contrast

• Oxymoron and alliteration

• Shows childhood imagination + enthusiasm to be able to turn something bare and lonely into fun nostalgia

• Isolated childhood

“How we’d mourn his fall”

• acts as allegory for horrific destruction of their relationship

• Eaten/ killed in hawaii