Literary analysis: O Captain, My Captain, by Walt Whitman 2 Articles

by Hoc Trinh

"O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman is an elegy, as it was written to honor the death of a person. The poem is a symbolism poem resembling president Abraham Lincoln after his assignation. Walt Whitman was born on ...read more

by M.D. Hennessey

In "O Captain, My Captain", Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow. The poem begins with the narrator feeling overjoyed because the "fearful trip is done," (Whitma...read more