The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
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;
Rise up -- for you the flag is flung -- for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths -- for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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This is one of Whitman's most famous poems. "O Captain, My Captain!" was written in homage to the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination in 1865. It was published in the latest version of "Leaves of Grass", Whitman's collection of poems. The poem is composed of three stanzas, and is a "symbolism poem", a simile representing Abraham Lincoln after his death. The poem has (almost always) the rhyming scheme AABB or ABAB. Whitman uses a metaphor in his poem, when the calls the President "captain of a ship" (l.1-2), referring to the President of the United States or the civil war, for Lincoln was in fact a commander of it. "The fearful trip is done" (l.1) means that the war has ended, and the soldiers are returning victorious from battle. However, while "the ship" is returning to the port, the captain bleeds, and then falls cold and dead. People are asking him to rise ans join the party, but he does not answer, he is still and pale. The phrase "fallen cold and dead" repeated at the end of each stanza emphasizes the horror and builds tension. While the ship is anchoring, people are stating to mourn, for the captain is dead. Major themes in this poem are loyalty towards Lincoln "O Captain, My Captain!" (l.1) and death "my Captain lies fallen cold and dead" (l.8).
