Context

• Author of "Captain Cook (To My Brother)"


  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon


  • Moved to the countryside as a child.
  • She spent lots of time playing with her younger brother.
  • Poem was inspired by her memories of reading Captain Cook with her brother.
  • She remembers when she used to spend time with her brother, as they don't talk anymore.
• "Captain Cook (To My Brother)" - Form


  Rhyming couplets - reflect the joys of childhood.
• "Captain Cook (To My Brother)"


  • Childhood imagination and fun.
  • Enjoying nature.
  • Memories and nostalgia.
  • All traces of her childhood have gone - even the garden.