“O Captain! My Captain!” is a twenty-four-line poem written by American poet Walt Whitman. The poem first appeared in The Saturday Press on November 4, 1865, and was later included in the 1867 edition of Whitman’s famous poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. Throughout his life, Whitman made several revisions of the poem, with the last version appearing in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. One of Whitman's most popular poems during his lifetime, "O Captain! My Captain!" uses the metaphor of a ship's captain to mourn the death of President Abraham Lincoln.
"o Captain! My Captain!" - Walt Whitman - 1865
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The poem "O Captain! My Captain!," a meditation on the death of President Abraham Lincoln, was written by Walt W...
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"o Captain! My Captain!" - Walt Whitman - 1865