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'O Captain! My Captain!' [1865]

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
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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]

Williams, Captain John

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

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

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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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).

"Death of Abraham Lincoln" (1879)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

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

Lanier, Sidney (1842–1881)

  • Creator(s): Berkove, Lawrence I.
Text:

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"

Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825–1903)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
Text:

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.

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

Some of the poems—"O Captain! My Captain!"

"O Captain! My Captain!"

Israel, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Goodblatt, Chanita
Text:

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."

Sequel To Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

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

"Memories of President Lincoln" (1881–1882)

  • Creator(s): Hirschhorn, Bernard
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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, James Russell (1819–1891)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

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!"

Lincoln's Death [1865]

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

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!

Van Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
Text:

For instance, in section 35 of "Song of Myself," Whitman recounts a tale involving Amy's father, Captain

Long Island, New York

  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

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!

Redpath, James [1833–1891]

  • Creator(s): LeMaster, J.R.
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Abolitionist author of The Public Life of Captain John Brown and editor of the North American Review,

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

man who tenderly nursed the wounded Union soldiers and as tenderly sung the dirge of their great captain

Mississippi River

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

He delighted in making "acquaintances among the captains, boatmen, or other characters" (Complete 1201

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

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."

Whitman, George Washington

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

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

Painters and Painting

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
Text:

that Bucke and others gathered to hear Whitman's friend Weda Cook, a young Camden singer, sing "O Captain

My Captain!"

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
Text:

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.

"Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Raleigh, Richard
Text:

wrestling, boiling-hot days" (1336).Concluding the letter, Whitman calls Emerson "the original true Captain

Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

She married a sea captain named Davis, but was soon widowed.

Leaves of Grass, 1871–72 edition

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

most recognizable image of the "Ship of State" had been published in the popular 1865–1866 text, "O Captain

My Captain!

Equality

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

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

Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

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.

Twentieth-Century Mass Media Appearances

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Jewell, Andrew | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

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.

American Revolution, The

  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven
Text:

bodies and bodies" line the decks; the masts and spars are spotted with "dabs of flesh"; beside the captain's

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

My husband, John, has been as supportive in this as in all my ventures.

It includes the metered (atypical for Whit man) "0 Captain! My Captain!"

My Captain!" appears in the Sat urdayPress. 16 NOVEMBER.

After the lecture he is presented with a bouquet of lilacs and then reads "0 Captain! My Captain!"

My Captain," 70, Mask," 109 71, 54 "Out of May's Shows Se "O d e.- By Walter Whit lected,"161 "Out of

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

My Captain!” and then a review of Drum-Taps.

“O Captain! My Captain!”

In 1889, he told Traubel, “It’s My Captain again: always My Cap- tain: the school readers have got along

I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the

29, 75–76, 109–10, 159–61, 195; and My Captain!”

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

Whitman’s famous rhymed dirge for Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!

my Captain!

My Captain!” An unsigned review in The Inde - pendent in 1865 mused that “O Captain!”

My Captain!,” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” 15.

My Captain!

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

My Captain!”

The copy of “O Captain! My Captain!” is dated by WW as March 9, 1887, as is a Gutekunst photograph.

My February 1. From R. Brisbane. Syracuse. Captain!” LC. CT: WWWC 4: 266–67. April(?) 19.

McIlhaney, a Captain! My Captain!”

, My Captain!”

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

My observations appear as footnotes.

That is not my goal; nor is it my goal to deal with, for example, the historical issues of Whitman’s,

Also, he is overly fond of O Captain! My Captain!

“O Captain! My Captain!” (Vol.

My Captain!”

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

When Whitman egged him to comment on “My Captain” (a poem Whitman himself several times ridiculed in

“O Captain! My Captain!”

Whitmanletsfly:“I’mhonestwhenIsay,damn‘MyCaptain’andallthe ‘My Captains’ in my book!

”thatturnedthepoetagainstit:“In some cases, as in Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ the high-water mark

My Captain!

Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

I make my way, / I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but I love you, / I do not hurt you more than

edition of 500," he wrote to his friend William O'Connor, adding that "I could sell that number by my

My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd."

And he found particular significance in the cover: "This is my design—I conceived it."

Body, set to them my name," followed by a blank space where Whitman added his signature in each copy

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

My Captain!"

My Captain!

Captain, 0 my Cap tain" surely one ofthe most tender and beautiful poems in any language.6 The misquotation

I sing the songfmy wallpaper, my ceiling, my floor, my doors, my windows, my around-rooms, under- and

My Captain!

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

My Captain!”; Whitman’s new poems in newspapers; and his essays on various topics.

My Captain!”

My Captain!” and unusual in his poetry in general.

My Captain!”

94–96; Worthington version of Leaves My Captain!

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

This book is dedicated to my husband, Larry, my love, my heartbeat, and my favorite dance partner. abbReviaTions

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

my colleagues.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
Text:

My father, my uncle, my grand-uncle and the several aunts.

In the first he's the unthreaten ing, desexualized rhymster of "0 Captain! My Captain!"

We must of course have read "0 Captain! My Captain!" in school, and I must have hated it.

Moly and My Sad Captains. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1973. - - .

My Likeness!

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
Text:

Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

Captain and all the My Captains in my book!

“I felt my life with both my hands” (Fr 357). 25.

, My Captain,” 18, Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 57, 95 233n29; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Wolosky, Shira, 30

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

My Captain!”).

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

I am running on my nerve, I am running on my spinal cord!

my life.

My Captain!

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

mouth.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

beard, and reached till you held my feet."

Oh my free, proud, secure soul, where are you?"

'The moment my eyes fell on him I was content.'"

My only dread is lest my love should blind me, & my heart whisper "Tomorrow" when my reason says "Today

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

I write to them more to my satisfaction, through my poems.

My book is my best letter, my response, my truest explanation of all.

As to my literary situation here, my rejection by the coteries-& my poverty, (which is the least of my

Ed my nurse gets my breakfast & gets it very well.

For my love for you is hardly less than my love for my natural parent.

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

My Soul !

'Ve clof'led with him .... the yards entangled ...• the cannon touched, 895 My captain lashed fast with

I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain, \Ve have not struck, he composedly cried

-I put my arms around them-touch my lips to them .

my Fancy."

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Nelson, Robert K. | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handsome, burly man, heavily built, and not looking, to my

me as more of a man, more of a democratic man, than the tallest of Whitman's roughs; to the eye of my

love had no bounds—all that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve kept from others I poured

Whitman might say to him "'od's my life, Saint Thomas, I am Snug the joiner & no lion, in this poem,

I, for my part, am no believer in the sacredness of the marriage ceremony, can imagine a perfect pure

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

My boy, ten years old, said to me this morning, "Have you got a book with a poem in it called '0 Captain

My Captain!' I want to 234 WHITMAN IN HIS OWN TIME learn it to speak at school."

my Captain!"

"Most of my readers ne glect my prose."

My Captain!

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

I took my agn?

My 146 Captain!"

my lands!

My Captain!"

My Captain!

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

excellent companionship made my Kluge tenure one of the most generative times of my creative life.

reader, and my most fiery critic.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. 142 Whitman

I had to give up my health for it—my body— the vitality of my physical self. . . . What did I get?

O my soldiers twain! O my veterans, passing to burial! 80 What I have I also give you.

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

My fit is mastering me!”

I put on my coat and hat.”

And I kept writing my own poetry.

My brothers and my sisters of this New World, we remember that, as Whitman said, “I do not trouble my

“You know,” she said, “I didn’t know anything about him at that time.We had read ‘O Captain, My Captain

Constructing the German Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

Yours, my dear Mr.

It was the poem Whitman was "almost sorry [he] ever wrote," "0 Captain! My Captain!"

my work.

My Captain!"

11y Captain!"

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