Casabianca (poem) - Parody

Parody

Generations of disrespectful schoolchildren, perhaps in accord with Butler's way of thinking, created parodies. One, recalled by Martin Gardner, editor of Best Remembered Poems, went:

The boy stood on the burning deck,
The flames 'round him did roar;
He found a bar of Ivory Soap
And washed himself ashore.

Michael R. Turner, editor of Victorian Parlour Poetry, contributed:

The boy stood in the waiting room,
Whence all but he had fled;
His waistcoat was unbuttoned,
His mouth was gorged with bread...

While a version found in "Oh, How Silly!" (ed. William Cole):

The boy stood on the burning deck
Eating peanuts by the peck;
His father called, he would not go
Because he loved those peanuts so.

Spike Milligan also parodied the opening of the poem:

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled -
Twit!

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