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    influenced and affected society can inflect people's emotions. The two poems, “In memory of W.B Yeats” by Wystan Hugh Auden and Walt Whitman's “O' Captain !My Captain!”, mourn the death of a loved on. “In memory of W.B Yeats” is written about an Irish poet named William Butler, one who died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones in a hotel room. “O'Captain! My Captain!” is about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S president, who was assassinated the morning of 14th April, a Friday in 1865. The poem by Auden was

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    poem, “O Captain! My Captain!” in 1855 after the death of the president at the time, Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War. The short article “The 5 stages of Grief and Loss” by Julie Axelrod was written in May 2016. Even though there is not much describing Axelrod in her about section, one can decipher that she works on the mourning and loss of another and helps to move past. She shows these feelings through all of her articles written for the website, Psych Central. “Oh Captain, My Captain!” by Walt

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    The captain is representative of Lincoln, whom Whitman identified with. Lincoln was a symbol of authority and power that Whitman felt he could believe in. Lincoln was someone who had become a great leader from humble beginnings. For Whitman, Lincoln was “…the

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    A majority of Americans have a clear understanding of what death is. No matter what we do to avoid it in the end, we will all die. In “ O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman, the narrator is telling us about how their ship has come home, but the captain died before getting to see all the people. In “The Chambered Nautilus” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the first stanza of this poem describes a chambered nautilus which is a snail-like creature that is found in the sea. It is filled with different chambers

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    On April 14, 1865, an assassination had happened. John Wilkes Booth had killed President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's death affected many U.S citizens. People were filled with sorrow and were very sad. It was a mourning day the day after Lincoln passed. Two people that were affected was Elizabeth Keckley, Walt Whitman and the whole nation was affected. In the story, Elizabeth Keckley states “The President had been shot and that I must go to the White House.” (p203) This means that Elizabeth

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    lines “Free! Body and soul free!” (Paragraph 14) suggest that she felt trapped being with her husband and now that he’s dead she’s finally free. This is something that I’m sure many American women in this time period felt. In Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” he uses a lot of symbolism to relate to the United States at the time

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    and to have the best place everywhere”. When Sojourner said this, she was telling how low people thought of her (and women in general) just for being a women even though she could work just as hard as any man could. When she said “Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!” you could see how hard she been working because being a women didn’t make her incapable of working hard. These statements from Sojourner really show you how women

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    of his autobiography discussing his war experiences, even though his life through 1860 seemed to be the years crucial to the background for Leaves of Grass, which is often considered Whitman’s most influential work. Whitman made the statement that “My book and the war are one.” This statement seems odd, considering that the majority of Whitman’s published works were written before the Civil War. Whitman’s statement is indicative of his view that the war was a pivotal event both nationally and globally

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    death. For example, his speech “A House Divided” caused politicians to think about certain topics. The text “Influence of Lincoln” tells the author’s personal story about how Lincoln’s American ideals changed her life. Lastly, the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” was written to praise Lincoln and mourn his death because of the American ideals he so strictly followed. Because Lincoln was so important to America and he embodied so many important characteristics, historical texts have been written

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    uses repetition to enhance his themes of sadness in his poetry. In “O Captain! My Captain!” Whitman writes of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Throughout the poem there is a strong tone sadness: “My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,/ My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,” (ln. 17-18) . In order to express the sadness Whitman felt over Lincoln’s death he uses repetition. The lines “O Captain! My Captain!” and “Fallen cold and dead” are repeated at the beginning and end

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