Spencer Altman
Oh captain. My captain
This is a poem about a captain who recently died, and they are celebrating that the ship returned home. The speaker talks about how happy he is that the ship crew is safe. However, I find it quite chilling that the captains dead body is still laying on the deck of the boat. This poem has a lot of rhyme and rhythm which makes the poem flow very well. The rhyme scheme is not perfect rhymes but there are a couple. There is no fixed meter of rhythm. The repetition of heart in line 5 emphasizes the poets sorrow. After doing some research on this poem I found that the captain was Abe Lincoln. The speaker of the poem is a little fanboy of the captain and he loves the captain very much. the author uses a lot of repetition. This poem focuses on mourning the loss of the resident and the sorrow that comes with losing a great leader. The speaker seems to have a bond with the captain in the second calling of “my captain”. A big note in this poem is that there are exclamation points that are meant to add despitation. This poem was misleading at first but after a couple times reading it and looking it up its history online it was quite easy to understand.
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