O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
American essayist, poetTranscendentalist movementRumored to have had dream night before Lincoln’s assassination
O Captain! My Captain!
Elegy to Lincoln after assassinationLincoln=CaptainPoem=extended metaphorWritten in 1865--relation to end of Civil War?
As You Read:
Keep in mind the extended metaphor of the poem. Try to determine what the following specific metaphors represent:
Fearful tripShip (hint: think big picture…what is the “vessel” that is moving forward?)PrizePortShores a-crowdingObject won
Determine SOAPSTone for the poem
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