Literary Devices In Harper Lee's 'Captain'

The author creates the poem though several literary devices, such as internal rhyme, apostrophe, and metaphor. In the metaphor, “Captain” symbolizes the President Lincoln. In the poem, the captain seems that he has tough times and succeeds through his trip, but is ultimately dead before he returns home. Through the captain, the author relates the character with the President Lincoln who led the United States to peace and was assassinated in the middle of the presidency. In addition, the author uses the word “fearful trip” and “the ship” to represent the Civil War and America because the war was long and bloody, and many people in the country past away and suffered during that time, but after the war, people get “prize” which represents the