"O Captain! My Captain!" is
an extended metaphor poem
written in 1865 by Walt
Whitman, about the death of
American president Abraham
Lincoln . The poem was first
published in the pamphlet
Sequel to Drum-Taps which
assembled 18 poems regarding
the American Civil War,
including another Lincoln
elegy, When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd.
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