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O Captain! My Captain! BY WALT WHITMAN
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

1. Who is the speaker of the poem? What do we know about the relationship between the
speaker and his “captain”?
2. What is the tone of the poem? In other words, what is the attitude of the speaker towards
his captain?
3. What happens in line 5 of the poem? How does the tone change in this line?
4. In line 5, the repetition of the word “heart” is repeated three consecutive times. How is
this sound imagery appropriate here?
5. What visual imagery is present in the first stanza? What are specific words which give
the reader sensory imagery?
6. In stanza 2, what sound imagery is present? Identify specific words.
7. What word does the speaker use in stanza 2 to refer to his captain? What does this
suggest about how the speaker feels toward his captain?
8. What touch imagery is present in stanza 2? Be specific.
9. What is the tone of the line “It is some dream…”? What word would best describe the toe
of this line?
10. What is the speaker’s attitude in the stanza 3? How does the reader know that the captain
is dead in the final stanza? What words create images of death?
11. What line is repeated at the end of every stanza? What is the effect of this repetition?
12. What might the fact that the speaker now walks the same deck the captain walked suggest
about the speaker’s sense of purpose now that his captain is dead?
13. What is the extended metaphor of the poem? In other words, what two things are being
compared throughout the poem? (Remember that this poem is set during the Civil
War).This may help:
a. The captain is compared to .
b. The ship is compared to .
c. The “fearful trip” that is done in stanza 1 is .
d. The “prize we sought” in stanza 3 is .
14. In reference to the extended metaphor of the poem, explain the line in the last stanza,
“The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done.”
15. If the captain of the ship is Abraham Lincoln, president of the U. S. during the Civil War,
how does he die? How is the Captain’s death in the poem similar to President Lincoln’s?

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The answer should be c

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the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

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1. ( 3rd option ) peter gets into a fight with the musician because they will not play a happy song for him.

2. ( 2nd option) petty arguments like feuds lead to pointless tragedy .

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Aparagraph would strengthen it the most

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O Captain! My Captain! BY WALT WHITMAN
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
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