Walt Whitman(Review by Cristian Matas)
The poem O Captain! My Captain! written by Walt Whitman in 1865 describes the feelings and emotions connected with the loss of a friend. The poem deals with the death of Whitman’s deep friend, president Abraham Lincoln, after the civil war in the USA. The author expresses his refusal to accept that his friend is not longer alive and, actually, in the second stanza he attemps to believe this is just a nightmare. It is an interesting story in which the author shows what Lincoln represents in his country because he is“the captain” and “the father” in the story. The readers can learn about love, war, friendship and loss along this very well-written poem and it can be very usefull to teach some important values in life.
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