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-"O Captain! My Captain!" (lines 1, 9, 17)
-"Fallen cold and dead" (lines 8, 16, 24)
-"Flag is flung" (line 10)
-"Ribbon'd wreaths" (line 11)
-"near...hear" (line 3)
-"trip...ship" (line 20)
Symbolism
-the end of Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
-should be a time of rejoicing yet the country is mourning
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
Metaphor
-"Captain" - Abraham Lincoln
-"ship" - United States of America
- Marie Rose Napierkowski & Mary Ruby
1. Critical Overview
2. Criticism :
Jhan Hochman
Critical Overview
Instant Classic --> Less Lauded.
Donald Hall "The Invisible World"
Robert Creeley "Introduction to Whitman Selected"
Purpose - Wider Audience, important historical moment.
Author Biography
Jhan Hochman
- Admired and loved by Whitman - Unionist
- Post Mortem Effects
- Unite the Union
Presidential Acts and Proclamations
- Whitman ; Great President as the subject of poetry.
Lincoln died in the Nature of the Union
Christ had died for man.
Whitman linked his name with Lincoln; Live on forever.