O captain my captain walt whitman biography

Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln

"Oh Captain, My Captain" redirects here. For the Grimm episode, see Oh Captain, My Captain (Grimm).

For the Shameless episode, see O Captain, My Captain (Shameless).

"O Captain!

O captain my captain walt whitman biography

My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received upon publication, the poem was Whitman's first to be anthologized and the most popular during his lifetime.

Together with "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day", and "This Dust Was Once the Man", it is one of four poems written by Whitman about the death of Lincoln.

During the American Civil War, Whitman moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the government and volunteered at hospitals.

Although he never met Lincoln, Whitman felt a connection to him and was greatly moved by Lincoln's assassination. "My Captain" was first published in The Saturday Pres