O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,

"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received upon publication, the poem was …

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

Whitman’s speaker is addressing his captain, which is an example of apostrophe, or a device in which a narrator speaks to someone or something that cannot respond. In his exclamation of …

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The death of Abraham Lincoln had a profound impact on Whitman and the country as a whole and is the focus of 'O Captain My Captain.' The poem mourns Lincoln's death and celebrates his …

"O Captain! My Captain!" was written in honor of President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination in 1865, and was published in Whitman's anthology, Leaves of Grass. The …

“O Captain! My Captain!” was Whitman’s best-known poem in his own lifetime. Its popularity was revived in the twentieth century after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the …

“O Captain! My Captain!” (1865) presents an extended metaphor for the death of American president Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

“O Captain! My Captain!” is an elegy that employs an extended metaphor of a slain ship captain to represent the assassination of President Lincoln after he led the Union to victory in the …