O Capitan ! My Captain ! By Walt Whitman

My Captain! illustrates American culture in 1865. The entire poem is a representation of America as a whole towards the end of the Civil War. The ship that represents America has weathered tough storms, but is finally approaching the harbour and everyone is celebrating. This represents the fact that America has suffered through difficult times but has finally reached the end of the Civil War. The ship is worn and gloomy, which is an analogy for the suffering and poverty that the citizens of America had to endure. The captain of the ship, representing Abraham Lincoln, has sadly died just as the ship reaches the end of the dangerous journey. Seeing as this entire poem is an analogy for the struggle that America had to suffer through, it is a perfect representation of American culture from this time. Americans, much like the ship, are worn down and tired. They are living in poverty, they are starving, and they are living in fear. There is also a great sense of relief as the ship, America, reaches harbour and can finally end this terrifying

Captain Lincoln Steers the Ship to victory. “Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.”(7-8) This quote from the story refers to the assassination of President Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was President during the Civil War, and is considered to be one of the greatest presidents of all time. President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14,1865 and was in a coma for 9 hours before he died. With the death of the President the nation lost it’s most important man and a great father and husband. The elegy “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman is an extended metaphor about President Lincoln’s presidency because it compares Lincoln to a ships captain, the Union

Source One is about the journey of Lincoln in the Civil War and he’s trying to save America. In Source One it says “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.” In this poem Abraham Lincoln is the captain who is fighting through his trip, which is personified as the Civil War. The ship is the United States fighting through the brutal and dangerous war. Lincoln was the figure that most people followed, while some people hated him for giving rights to colored people. Even though he was said horrible things and the country divided for the freedom of slaves Lincoln still fought for what he thought was right. After Lincoln’s death and accomplishment of freeing slaves he didn’t get to see the happiness and and the honor he deserved. Furthermore, after the fearful trip was done, Lincoln was able to write the Emancipation Proclamation which gave everyone

It is not news for anyone to hear that Lincoln changed America, but Whitman explains it a little differently. Looking closer at “Oh Captain! My Captain!” elements of American Romanticism pop out, and one of those major elements is political changes or events. The Event of this is very well known, Lincoln’s assassination. New york Times tells that Whitman was pushed to write this poem after Lincoln’s assassination as a tribute to him. “Generations of historians have described, and tried to interpret the meaning of, this unique funeral procession. But no author has probed the event more deeply than Walt Whitman”. (Griffin, New York Times). This can be shown through the detail of the poem to his assassination. It describes the captain falling cold and dead, which can be a direct correlation to him being shot. His assassination isn't the only thing discussed in this poem. Going back to the metaphors about the voyage, the voyage is described as done. This can show that the civil war was over recently, it ended on April 9th. Lincoln’s assassination took place on April 14th. The close relations of both of these events happening are described like a history lesson through the poem. The second stanza is describing the vents after the war, and the third is describing Lincoln's death. After the war ended the country was in a state of happiness and celebration, but Lincoln was assassinated only a few days later.

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"O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won… The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won…" Walt Whitman's description of a ship weathering a powerful storm, and returning safe with its mission complete, perfectly illustrates the United States enduring the divisions of the Civil War. This poem is one of numerous commemorations to the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Merrill D. Peterson, author of Lincoln in American Memory, examines an interesting variety of sources, including statues and prints made of Lincoln over the years in addition to the numerous biographies

In the next lines, Whitman makes the assertion that both soldiers vividly know the price of war. He describes it as “hot contention of opposing fronts”, “the long maneuver”, and “red battles with their slaughter”. These observations about battle illustrate that both soldiers have seen the difficulty of the fight and how both sides try to out strategize the other. The red battles of slaughter, illustrate the death toll that those strategies and contentious battles have created.

Five days after the Confederates surrendered and effectively ended the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Many writers articulated their feeling about the death of Lincoln. One of America’s famous poets, the author and journalist Walt Whitman, expressed the depth of his feelings by writing the poem “O Capitan! My Capitan!” In this poem, Lincoln is symbolized as a leader of a ship. He died before he could celebrate his achievement of bringing an end to the bloody conflict that tore the country apart. This poem, uses heavily a metaphor and imagery to expresses a deep sorrow the people feel for loss of their president, especially that of Walt Whitman, who had tremendous respect for Lincoln’s honesty and courage.

Works of art, such as poems, influences our perceptions in life with its strong leitmotifs and messages it carries out. A poem that had a big effect on my percipience in life was Walt Whitman’s poem, “O Me! O Life!” The poem begins with the narrator questioning their existence and the emptiness in life; and with it, craving the light in the end of the tunnel. It discusses themes such as failed explorations and the meaning of their lives with their confusion and letdowns. Whitman later ends the poem with answering the question that existing is a good enough purpose for living and that everyone will leave a mark on this world. This poem had a substantial effect on me because I was constantly questioning my life. Moving from adolescence to adulthood

Whitman often wrote of the sorrows of America endured during the civil war.. Walt Whitman uses repetition to enhance his themes of sadness in his poetry. In “O Captain! My Captain!”

“O Captain! My Captain!” is one of the most popular poems ever written by Walt Whitman. Upon the initial reading of this poem, one may perceive the poem to be about a loyal captain who leads his crew on a treacherous, but successful, voyage which ends in devastation. If interpreted literally this is the poem’s only meaning, but for those who look further there is an underlying story behind the words of Whitman. Whitman uses multiple literary elements throughout this poem in order to unmask the story of Abraham Lincoln’s journey and ultimate death as a result of the Civil War and his fight to end slavery.

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself / and what I shall assume you shall assume” (Whitman 1-2). These lines not only open up the beginning of one the best poems of the American Romantic period, but they also represent a prominent theme of one of this period’s best poet, Walt Whitman. In Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, Whitman deals with his time period’s most prominent theme of democracy. Whitman tells readers that they must not only observe the democratic life but they must become one with it. As Whitman states, “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” (3). Democracy provides a connection with all people. It is as if Joseph Stella felt this connection and decided to depict it in his collection of paintings entitled “Americans in the Rough.” The individual is of no greater or lesser worth than anyone else. Beatrice Marovich states that, “It is a song for fellow Americans, about the American body politic” (349). An analysis of Song of Myself portrays that understanding and becoming one with democracy through political collectivity essentially sets the stage for the American democratic self. Joseph Stella does a great job of interpreting and depicting Whitman’s ideals of democracy through his illustrations representing every facet of an American democratic life.

Dedicating countless hours to the war and politics before President Lincoln’s death, Whitman strained to restore the Union as a whole. Feeling obligated to participate in the war effort, Whitman secured a government position making “regular visit[s] [to] soldiers in war hospitals”(Constantkis). Whitman also participated in the Free Soil Party, a rising opposition to the progression and spread of slavery, and wrote political commentaries in his effort to strengthen the Union. These undertakings not only aided the Union, but also brought Whitman closer to his idol, Lincoln, who also wanted to preserve the Union. Devastated by the assassination of President Lincoln, Walt Whitman wrote “O Captain! My Captain!,” “This Dust Was Once the Man,” and