O Captain! My Captain!

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O Captain! My Captain!

• Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

• American essayist, poet
• Transcendentalist movement
• Rumored to have had dream night before Lincolns
  assassination

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O Captain! My Captain!

• Elegy to Lincoln after assassination
• LincolnCaptain
• Poemextended metaphor
• Written in 1865--relation to end of Civil War?

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As You Read

• Keep in mind the extended metaphor of the poem.
  Try to determine what the following specific
  metaphors represent
• Fearful trip
• Ship (hint think big picturewhat is the
  vessel that is moving forward?)
• Prize
• Port
• Shores a-crowding
• Object won
• Determine SOAPSTone for the poem