Walt_Whitman2.pptVIP

The poem is highly popular among American people. It portrays Lincoln as the captain of a sea-worn ship which represents or symbolizes the Union that had experienced the American Civil War and triumphant at last. The poem expresses Whitman’s deep sorrow for the death of Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated on April 14 1865, five days after the declaration of the triumphant close of the Civil War. The poem contains three stanzas, each of which consists of 8 lines. The first four lines are two couplets and the last four are in the form of a regular ballad with the fifth and seventh lines iamb