1. O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman

2. Walt Whitman American essayist, poet Transcendentalist movement
Rumored to have had dream night before Lincoln’s assassination

3. O Captain! My Captain! Elegy to Lincoln after assassination
Lincoln=Captain
Poem=extended metaphor
Written in relation to end of Civil War?

4. As You Read:
Keep in mind the extended metaphor of the poem. Try to determine what the following specific metaphors represent:
Fearful trip
Ship (hint: think big picture…what is the “vessel” that is moving forward?)
Prize
Port
Shores a-crowding
Object won
Determine SOAPSTone for the poem