![]() Yet they don’t know that the captain has died. The people who has followed the Captain Abraham on this long journey, is cheering and chanting for their accomplishment. Winning feels great when it has been accomplished in a group. Cries and tears, were on the deck, where the captain is “Fallen cold and dead.” The immediate change of mood on the poem it’s what makes it stunning. Then it transitions to the realization from the sailors of the ship that their captain has die right after “But O heart! heart! heart!” which emphasizes the poet’s grief at the death of his captain. The ships voyage is compared to the whole time being at war, also calling the ship “the vessel grim and daring:” its explaining that they came back strong, and powerful. Happy and excited because after a long time they get to return home. The exciting yet controversial first stanza starts with joy, as to people cheering and jumping of excitement for winning a battle or war. ![]() The fight between the north and the south for the freedom of slaves for economic reasons lead to the hatred of many on president Lincoln, leading him to his death.Įverything that is great, must come to an end. Lincoln lead the union during the American Civil War. Whitman honors this poem to his former president, Abraham Lincoln. the next year and found part-time work in the paymaster’s office, spending much of the rest of his time visiting wounded soldiers” (Editors, 2016). ![]() “In later 1862, Whitman traveled to Fredericksburg to search for his brother George, who fought for the Union and was being treated there for a wound he suffered. Whitman most famous poem “O Captain my Captain” was part of his influence in the Civil War. Walt Whitman came from a modest family and liked and wrote poetry most of his life, but he was not as popular until the civil war era. ![]()
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