“O Captain! My Captain!“ by Walt Whitman (poetry reading)

According to Walt Whitman, this is about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It is hard to see anything particularly relevant to that occasion but the American people accepted this poem as a suitable tribute and it became very popular. Afternote - “relevant“ means having some real connection with the matter being discussed. There may be a metaphorical connection but if Walt hadn’t said that this was about Lincoln’s assassination then nobody would have guessed. The meaning of “relevant“ is a trivial issue so I suggest you don’t knock yourself out trying to make any further points about it. Here’s Vincent Price reading it: O Captain! My Captain!.mp3 PostScript, 21st November 2011 I’m not the only one to notice the resemblance to Moby Dick. Melville was the same age as Whitman and Walt had not only read his works, he had also written reviews. Coincidentally, he wasn’