The countrymen faced hard time as well as tough period of war and bloodshed. The President had ever nurtured the thought of uniting the whole part of the country into one. The total voyage is powered by the thought of unity that was dreamt by Abraham Lincoln. According to the latest report in ‘The New York Times in 2012, it is said that the condition of the ship symbolizes the condition of the contemporary situation of the country. The condition of the ship was described as ‘grim and daring’. The American civil war was the country’s bloodiest war in the history. And in that ship the whole is compared with the soldiers in the civil war in which the writer was a part and the staunchest friend of the American leader, Abraham Lincoln. The ship mentioned in the poem, is nothing but the whole states of America. Here, one of the most vital parts of symbolism is prevalent in the spirit of the poem. O Captain! My Captain! as an Elegy of Abraham Lincoln.The kind attachment the poet has shown here absolutely superb and at the same it takes away our heart not only for the leader but also for its description. He calls Lincoln as “My Captain” as ‘My Father’ which symbolizes the fact that the death of Abraham Lincoln was a collective loss but it was a personal loss. Throughout the poem there is deep sense of significance in terms of respect show by the poet to Abraham Lincoln. Here, the poet is very much grief stricken for the sudden death of their leader. He can see that at the shore the countrymen were going through a rapid mood of enjoyment that was nothing but to signify the taste of victory in civil war. In which part the poet was selected as the commander. Here the ship is nothing but referred to the whole country led by the greatest leader, Abraham Lincoln. Here the fearful trip signifies the joint venture in the American civil war. In the first stanza of the poem, Walt Whitman praises that Abraham Lincoln as the greatest leader ever and at the same time he also says that he and his leader has almost reached the last part of their ‘fearful trip’. It has different parts that are superbly energized by the poet himself. The poem can be assessed from the symbolical point of view. Reynolds admits him also the same fact and also considers him having his moral death. This is nothing but an apostrophe about Abraham Lincoln. The present poem is judged as store house of all bereavements of the whole countrymen in reference to his death. His murder in the year of 1865 Lincoln was judged from the point of morality. The writer, Walt Whitman metaphored the stance of the great leader’s death from the both psychological as well as from the ethical point of view. His murder was a cause of political disorder. He was a victim of the bitter conspiracy by his own countrymen. His death was pre planned which can also be called an assassination. Abraham Lincoln was not only the leader of America but also the kind of movement started all over the nation its waves reached the each and every purview of the world states.
He wrote the poem to pay tribute to one of the greatest leader ever not only of The United States of America but also of the whole world, Abraham Lincoln. The poem adds another stance of symbolism and allegory from the narrative point of view.
The most celebrated American poet of the contemporary period, Walt Whitman wrote his most celebrated poem, “ O Captain! My Captain!” from the perspectives of great symbolism.
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