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Civil War Voices: Whitman's Elegy for a Fallen Leader — Homework
Read "O Captain! My Captain!" aloud at least once before answering.
- 1.Identify what the ship, the voyage, the prize, and the captain each represent in the poem.
- 2.Why does Whitman keep the celebratory imagery going even after revealing the captain is dead?
- 3.Explain why an extended metaphor might carry public grief more effectively than a plain statement of fact.
- 4.In four or more sentences, describe what a private soldier's letter home might reveal that this public elegy does not.
- 5.About how many days passed between the war's effective end and Lincoln's death?
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