An example of a verse that shows Abraham Lincoln death is “O bleeding drops of read” when this is said it could mean anything, Walt Whitman is directing the verse at the Captain who is Walt Whitman. There are verses that show that he’s dead and also a poetic device that shows his death is repetition. This three stanza poem story line is about Abraham Lincoln who is a farther like figure for Walt Whitman, this is shown in the second stanza when he says Here captain! Dear farther, Walt Whitman could see him as a father figure and a Captain who didn’t deserve his death and who deserved to be celebrated for. Walt Whitman’s O Captain My Captain is an extended metaphor mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 at the close of the American Civil War. O, Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman Walt Whitman had a lot to say about death. Repetition is a common poetic device used throughout the poem, an example I Oh Captain! My Captain! This shows that Walt Whitman thinks of Abraham Lincoln is a Captain and that he’s worth talking about in every stanza in his poem. And look my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. Poetic devices have a major roll in the poem. Walt Whitman wrote the poem O Captain My Captain as an ode to President Abraham Lincoln. How ever when in the poem and how the writer is talking first person takes me to assume this was also a message about someone he very much cared and loved for. Erin has taught college level English courses and has a masters degree in English. The reasoning behind my idea was that it talked about a boat and people cheering them and giving them appraisal seems to me assuming they were out and discovered a lot of mysteries and had a successful voyage on there ship. My original thought was that this poem was created in the 18th century before Abraham Lincoln was born. I had only realised after studying and doing more research on the poem and its true meaning what it actually meant, I do now realise what the poem is about.
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