"What is the title of the poem which begins ""The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck?"
Casabianca (poem) referenced in Bram Stoker's "Dracula". In chapter VII, in a newspaper account of the great storm, the dead pilot of the ship Demeter is compared to "the young Casabianca." (Stoker, Bram. "Dracula." 1897). A character in Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh" draws an unorthodox moral from the poem: The mis-attribution of the poem serves as both a key plot device, and a running gag, in P.G. Wodehouse's "The Luck of the Bodkins" (1935). The first line of the poem serves as the title and the inspiration for the short story "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" by
Casabianca (poem) he prepares his team member for a difficult task ahead of them, "The boy stood on the burning deck...that'd be us!" in the TV drama "The Unit" (Season 4, Episode 16, "Hill 60"). In the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure Series 1, Episode 6, "Fitton" (2008), Douglas (Roger Allam) makes fun of Martin (Benedict Cumberbatch) by parodying the opening line of the poem, "The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled!", which is immediately followed up by "His heart was in his mouth but, lo! His cap was on his head!" from Carolyn (Stephanie