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Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!." Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. What is the...Question
Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!."
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
What is the speaker referring to?
Abraham Lincoln has tragically died.
A captain has died on his ship.
Lincoln fell and was seriously injured.
A captain told lies, so he was punished.
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
What is the speaker referring to?
Abraham Lincoln has tragically died.
A captain has died on his ship.
Lincoln fell and was seriously injured.
A captain told lies, so he was punished.
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The speaker is referring to Abraham Lincoln, who has tragically died. The poem is an elegy mourning Lincoln's assassination, with the "Captain" symbolizing Lincoln as the leader of the nation.