![]() ![]() It is an incredibly complicated poem and impossible to sum up in just a few lines. ‘Song of Myself’ is one of the most popular poems in Whitman’s volume ‘ Leaves of Grass ’ it is also the longest.It is a well-known fact that this poem was written soon after Abraham Lincoln’s death, making Lincoln the beloved and deceased captain. The speaker expresses his desire that the captain was there to see and feel the excitement of the people onshore. ![]() At the beginning of the poem, the captain-less ship sails home to port and is greeted by a celebrating crowd. ‘ O Captain! My Captain!is an elegy devoted to a deceased “Captain.” This unnamed man was a great leader and someone the speaker knows the world will miss.Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) was a huge fan of Whitman’s writing.He and Oscar Wilde briefly met and might have kissed. ![]()
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