The Vault at Pfaff's
Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain! [from Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps]." New York Saturday Press, November 14, 1865, 218.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract
In this elegy to Abraham Lincoln, Whitman depicts a ship's crew celebrating the successful completion of their voyage, while the narrator expresses bittersweet emotion at the ship captain's death.