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    O Captain! My Captain!” Literary Analysis Every great nation’s past contains a great leader who sacrificed everything for his or her country. Abraham Lincoln gave his life after striving to abolish slavery. Soon after Lincoln’s murder‚ Walt Whitman wrote an apostrophe poem to Lincoln. In this eulogy‚ Whitman praised Lincoln’s accomplishments and mourned his death. In “O Captain! My Captain!”‚ Walt Whitman uses repetition‚ symbolism‚ assonance‚ and metaphors to portray the theme that every great

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    "O Captain! my Captain!" Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! my Captain!" after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman describes Lincoln as the captain of the ship‚ as the leader of the country; he also refers to him as a father: "Here Captain! dear father!"(13)‚ "My father doesn’t feel my arm‚"(18). Clearly‚ a captain is not a father. Why‚ then‚ does Whitman connect the two together? Are there certain similarities between them that can’t be avoided? A captain is

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    O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman O captain My captain was an expiring poem for me. This poem filled my mind with great memories snd make think of my loved ones who are now Angels.I am still feeling the connection. In my opinion‚ I can say that peopleare physically dead be we can keep them in our mind alive as long as we want them to be part of our lives. Father and I had different character. We had the same interest such as reading‚ watching news‚ assisting on conference-debates

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    8 March 2011 ] Literary Summary/Analysis of “O CaptainMy Captain” by Poet Walt WhitmanO Captain! My Captain” is a poem written by American poet Walt Whitman which expresses admiration for the 16th president of the United States of America who was assassinated. Written as an elegy in memory of Abraham Lincoln‚ who led the nation through turbulent times during the Civil War‚ the poem invokes the emotions both of pride and solemnest that Whitman felt for Lincoln. I chose this poem for the sentiments

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    O Captain! My Captain’ is a moving poem in which Whitman expresses his profound sense of grief at a tragic end of a leader of men is addressed to Abraham Lincoln‚ one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America‚ who fought a war (the American Civil War) against the Southern States to give the Negro slaves freedom and human dignity. The war was won‚ the slaves were freed‚ but Lincoln‚ soon after his election as president for a second term‚ fell a victim to an assassin’s bullet.

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    The Captain of the Ship The poem “O Captain! My Captain” by Walt Whitman was written after the murder of the second president of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln. The poem was published on November 4‚ 1865‚ in Saturday Press in New York. This poem became one of the most famous poems of Whitman‚ which the readers immediately accepted. In this paper‚ I will look at the historical background of the poem “O Captain! My Captain” by examining the time period in

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    "The words of my books‚" said Walt Whitman‚ "are nothing‚ the drift of it everything." The various themes in Whitman’s works are the most important‚ the actual erudite terms are only important in upholding these ideas. The main themes of his "O Captain! My captain!" are death of a hero‚ family‚ a journey‚ and defeat vs. victory. The themes are supported by a variety of concrete stylistic techniques‚ including tone‚ apostrophe‚ allusions‚ archetypes‚ and repetition. Death of a hero is the first theme

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    "O Captain! My Captain!" is a poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865. The poem is classified as an elegy because it is a mourning poem that was written in the memory of someone. The poem was written to honor Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United States. Walt Whitman was born in 1819 and died in 1892‚ so he lived through the American Civil War. Being born close to the founding of the country‚ he knew people that were a part of the American Revolution. Through this he experienced the unification

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    every rack‚ the prize we sought is won" The poem O Captain! My Captain! Written by Walt Whitman starts out by describing what happened at the begging of his eventful journey in which the captain and his sailors went on. In stanza one the captain and his sailors arrive at their destination point when suddenly the captain falls cold and dead‚ just short of his final destination. If I were to judge why he ended up like that I would say the captain stole a treasure‚ which belonged to someone else

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    (Quote‚ Marcus Garvey). From my perspective‚ a person has to know the past‚ to shape the future. By investigating and digging into the history‚ we discover more and more relevant facts‚ from which we can take an advantage. Thus‚ the analysis of literature and poem becomes more interesting and intriguing when we eventually learn more about its historical and cultural background. In this essay‚ I am going to look through several poems of Walt Whitman: “O Captain! My Captain” and “Drum Taps.” These two

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