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GregoryEiselein'O Captain! My Captain!' [1865]'O Captain! My Captain!'
[1865]Though stylistically atypical of his verse, "O Captain! My Captain!"
The rhyme, meter, stanza, and refrain in "O Captain" are conventional.
Although the ship has weathered the storm and re-entered the harbor safe and victorious, the captain
'O Captain! My Captain!' [1865]
my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain!
my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still: My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I, with silent trade, Walk the spot my Captain lies, In this and in "President Lincoln's Funeral
Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather
/ List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me" (section 35).Bibliography Allen
Williams, Captain John
Whitman's poems, "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman eventually added four poems: "O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain!"
The Lincoln poems, particularly "O Captain!
"Damn My Captain," he said, "I'm almost sorry I ever wrote the poem" (With Walt Whitman 2:304).
O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN! O Captain, my Captain!
O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain, my Captain, rise up and hear the bells.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
Exult O shores, and ring O bells, But I with mournful tread Walk the deck my Captain lies, To analyze
Here it is copied from [the] volume before us:— O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain! my Captain!
Leave you not the little spot, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain!
my Captain!
My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I with mournful tread Walk the spot my Captain lies, Compare with this, for poetic or pathetic feeling
Among these poems are "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman's delivery moved many members of the audience to tears, and he concluded with a reading of his "O Captain
My Captain!" Whitman also delivered the Lincoln lecture in Boston in 1881.
In "Memoranda" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Whitman reports delivering the Lincoln lecture for the last
There are passages in the lines entitled 'Captain, My Captain,' and in the war-lyric commencing 'Beat
constituted true democracy, yet again lauded his poetry for its "bigness and naïvety" and singled out "My
Captain, O my Captain" [sic] as "surely one of the most tender and beautiful poems in any language"
my captain! our fearful trip is done!
Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen Cold and Dead. O captain!
my captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up!
My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I, with silent tread, Walk the spot; my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Stoddard was raised in poverty after his sea-captain father was lost
named for himself" (2:41), and most strongly praises one of Whitman's most conventional lyrics, "O Captain
My Captain!" Stoddard's published criticism of Whitman widened the gap between the two.
Some of the poems—"O Captain! My Captain!"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
my Captain!
O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead. O Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, The most prejudiced will not deny that that
Two of his poems ("O Captain! My Captain!"
Finally, the newspaper Ha'arets (11 October 95) printed Whitman's poem on Lincoln's assassination, "O Captain
My Captain!," as a tribute to Yitzhak Rabin's memory after his assassination.
"What is Yours is Mine, My Father: On One Poem by Walt Whitman."
included some of Whitman's most recognizable poetry: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain
My Captain!," and "Chanting the Square Deific."
Betsy Erkkila has offered a historical reading of "Lilacs" and "O Captain! My Captain!"
Likewise, in "As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado," Whitman employs a defiant persona who unsettles
captain!
Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
O captain, my captain, rise up and hear the bells; Rise up, for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm—he has no pulse
But I, with silent tread Walk the spot my captain lies We have quoted enough, we think, even in these
and who are forever enshrined in his—and civic—memory and as a significant theme of the dirge.In "O Captain
My Captain!"
The president is described as the fallen captain of the ship of state he had steered to victory.
Lowell was his bitterest enemy: "'Lowell never even tolerated me as a man: he not only objected to my
at this benefit Lowell is said to have exclaimed, "This has been one of the most impressive hours of my
They were also nearly exact contemporaries, and Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
pieces, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865-1866) and one of his best-known poems, "O Captain
My Captain!" (1865-1866).
Whitman intensely admired Lincoln from the late 1850s onward, remarking at one point, "After my dear,
"Hush'd Be the Camps To-day" and the other Lincoln poems ("Lilacs," "O Captain!
What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition.
You shall stand by my side to look in the mirror with me."
I lie in the night air in my red shirt… the pervading hush is for my sake.
We close with him: the yards entangled… the masts touched: My captain lashed fast with his own hands.
I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain— `We have not struck,' he composedly cried
Dozens of pages of his rhythmic prose are not worth "My Captain," which among all his compositions comes
If Whitman, after the same length of time, proves more fortunate, it will be because he wrote "My Captain
He explains his inspiration thus: Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, It
He explains the limit of his happiness: I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To
touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand .
Whenever he does this he writes lines that will live—notably, his "O Captain, my Captain," inspired by
the army hospitals, and his noble tribute to Lincoln (not so tender as the really rhythmic verses "My
Captain"), are things for young Americans to study.
For instance, in section 35 of "Song of Myself," Whitman recounts a tale involving Amy's father, Captain
Specimen Days (1882) Whitman says of the region where he was born, "the successive growth-stages of my
The voyage itself appears again and again, in the narrative style of "Old Salt Kossabone" and "O Captain
My Captain!
describes himself well enough in the lines, I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable — , I sound my
He says (p. 31): Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
His tribute to Abraham Lincoln (p. 262), beginning "O Captain! my Captain!"
Abolitionist author of The Public Life of Captain John Brown and editor of the North American Review,
man who tenderly nursed the wounded Union soldiers and as tenderly sung the dirge of their great captain
Grass" will remain a real contribution to the thought of America, and some of the additional pieces, "My
Captain, O My Captain," "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking," once
He delighted in making "acquaintances among the captains, boatmen, or other characters" (Complete 1201
are famous everywhere; and, though later efforts have been less happy, the one exquisite song, "O, Captain
My Captain!" written on the death of Lincoln, would make him one of our honored poets forever.
future," "You do not understand me, you cannot understand me, but I can wait hundreds of years for my
— The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
"Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just
The poet's quaternary on the death of Lincoln includes Whitman's most popular poem, "O Captain!
My Captain!," and one of his most critically acclaimed, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."
Y.) and My Life on It as Child and Young Man…Printing Office—Old Brooklyn…Lafayette…Broadway Sights…My
I have been exercised deeply about it my whole life.)
Again he was ask'd to yield, this time by a rebel captain.
The rebel captain then shot him—but at the same instant he shot the captain.
From today I enter upon my 64th year.
In "My Boys and Girls" Whitman fondly recalls carrying on his shoulders young George, "his legs dangling
down upon my breast, while I trotted for sport down a lane or over the fields" (248).
Fredericksburg, Second Bull Run, the Wilderness, and Petersburg was reflected in the stripes (sergeant, captain
that Bucke and others gathered to hear Whitman's friend Weda Cook, a young Camden singer, sing "O Captain
My Captain!"
Bless the Lord,O my soul!
my special word to thee. Who can be a companion of thy course!
lengthening shadows, prepare my starry nights.
my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
O,the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (hereafter "Lilacs"), "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," and "O Captain
My Captain!" in the years 1884–1904. Gustav Holst produced a "Walt Whitman Overture" in 1899.
wrestling, boiling-hot days" (1336).Concluding the letter, Whitman calls Emerson "the original true Captain
She married a sea captain named Davis, but was soon widowed.
most recognizable image of the "Ship of State" had been published in the popular 1865–1866 text, "O Captain
My Captain!
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
The air tastes good to my palate.
Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
Another song on the death of Lincoln, "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
its Dantesque horror, and then, brooding over brotherhood, union, democracy, sang 'Leaves of Grass,' 'My
Captain,' 'Calamus,' and all that me quoque which forms the essential germ of the Whitman gospel: egotism
it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were not indispensable to my
equality was also based on the teaching of Christ as he had seen it practiced by the Quakers: "I wear my
to the President at his levee" and "Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field" ("Song
In opposition to Carlyle's hero-worship he offered in 1871 a "worship new" of "captains, voyagers, explorers
Was Pete the muse for Whitman's most popular Lincoln tribute, the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?
While "O Captain!"
Like as not I would go to sleep—lay my head on my hands on the table.
I wish it given to him with my love."
Give my love to dear Mrs. and Mr.
There is a lawless saying, fit only for the wise, but full of meaning for poets and great captains,—
People who know absolutely nothing of his writing, either prose or verse, who have not read even "O Captain
, My Captain," do not hesitate to assail him, to excoriate him, to blackguard him with a vehemence which
I will also want my utterances to be in spirit poems of the morning.
I have wished to put the complete union of the states in my songs without any preference or partiality
Then the simile of my friend, John Burroughs, is entirely true, 'his glove is a glove of silk, but the
My Captain!": O Builder! My Builder!
My Captain!" several times (see Mad issues for April 1959, September 1967, and March 1983).
The song's narrator claims "I'd give my left lung to be hers for one night" and "she breaks my heart
'Leaves of Grass,' my ass!"
My Robot Friend (2004). Walt Whitman.
few pieces which are marked by the "piano-tune" quality that he derides—the true and tender lyric of "My
Captain" and the fine poem on "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors."
bodies and bodies" line the decks; the masts and spars are spotted with "dabs of flesh"; beside the captain's
by the indolent waves, I am exposed, cut by bitter and poisoned hail Steeped amid honeyed morphine , my
darkness Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking—preparations to pass to the one we had conquered— The captain