William Makepeace Thackeray wrote the novel Vanity Fair in 1846 and it was published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848,
The novel takes place in the early 1800s, in the first years of the Victorian era, when the country was submerging into a strong and oppressive conservative way of life.
The plot tells the saga of two families during the Napoleonic wars.
Daydreaming. Kinda obvious xD
The cow was grazing in the pasture.
The entire poem uses an extended poem by implying the comparison between seemingly unlike things. In this metaphor, the captain is Lincoln, the voyage is the war and the ship represents the US