Oh+Captain,+My+Captain

I thought this poem was very good. It was about Abe Lincoln and his assasination. The poem talks about a captain who was shot in a battle that his troops won. This represents Abe Lincoln being shot and killed after winning the war against slavery. I thought it was kind of weird that Whitman put the end of the war at the beginning of the poem and not at the end along with the captain's death that was also in the beginning of the poem. I would have put that part at the end because his assasination happened at the end of the war and it seems to have more meaning if you have the significant point of the poem near the middle or the end.

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