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Walt Whitman - O Captain, My Captain
O Captain! ...
Walt Whitman is talking about his personal hero- Abraham Lincoln. Whitman compares Lincolns responsibility for preserving the Union to a captains repsonsibility to preserve a ship. ... Since Lincol was assassinated before he could see the complete restoration of the Union, Whitman creates an analogy where a captain dies on the deck of his ship before reaching shore. ...
The author, Walt Whitman, is the narrator of this poem.
Approximate Word count = 406 Approximate Pages = 1.6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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