O Captain! My Captain!

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"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received upon publication, the poem was Whitman's first to be anthologized and the most popular during his lifetime.

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Image: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (Life time: 1892), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.