O Captain! My Captain!

Description

Ranger Dani honors the impact President Lincoln’s assassination had on the nation with a performance of Walt Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!" Very different and quite simple compared to Whitman's other works, the poem is an extended metaphor with only three stanzas and follows a classic rhyming scheme. Whitman created it this way so that the most people, including the large illiterate population, could appreciate the poem and use it as a coping tool for the sudden loss of their beloved president.

Duration

2 minutes, 21 seconds

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