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Walt Whitman

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O Captain, My Captain Overview

"O Captain! My Captain!" is a Walt Whitman poem written in 1865, in reaction to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The poem's central conceit compares Lincoln to the captain of a ship. It expresses gratitude for Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War and mourns the loss of this great man.

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Walt Whitman

2,182 words, approx. 8 pages

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is generally considered to be the most important American poet of the 19th century. He wrote in free verse, relying heavily on the rhythms of native American speech.In all, ov... Read more

Walt Whitman

4,763 words, approx. 16 pages

Walt Whitman, poet and American original, is many things to many different people. To some he is quite simply the "country's national poet," as a contributor for the Economist declared on the hundredt... Read more

Walt Whitman

11,732 words, approx. 40 pages

Biography Essay"A great figure, the greatest assuredly in our literature—yet perhaps only a great childsumming up and transmitting into poetry all the passionate aspirations of an America that h... Read more

Walt(er) Whitman

10,234 words, approx. 35 pages

"A great figure, the greatest assuredly in our literature--yet perhaps only a great child--summing up and transmitting into poetry all the passionate aspirations of an America that had passed through ... Read more

Walt(er) Whitman

2,363 words, approx. 8 pages

Walt Whitman did not aspire to be a literary critic, yet in the course of his career he did review the works of a large number of writers ranging from the ancient classicists to his contemporaries. In... Read more

Walt(er) Whitman

18,171 words, approx. 61 pages

Widely considered the most influential and innovative poet of America, Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village near Hempstead, Long Island, on 31 May 1819 to Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitma... Read more

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