A sailor sings a song, a song that praises his captain for leading the ship and crew into the harbor after a long a dangerous voyage. Everyone on shore is celebrating the safe homecoming when the sailor notices that the captain is lying dead on the deck of the ship. The sailor mournfully walks the deck where the captain has fallen.
Click HERE to listen to a Podcast by Ms. Cheyenne Araujo as she recites O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
This poem is overflowing with symbolism; the ship being America, the dangerous voyage the Civil War, and of course the captain, President Abraham Lincoln.
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