greykit.poetry · #Lincoln

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1865 [walt-whitman] O Captain! My Captain!
Leaves of Grass

Whitman's elegy for Lincoln as fallen ship's captain — the voyage won and the port in sight, but the Captain lies cold and dead on the deck while the crowds exult on shore.

#elegy #Lincoln #Civil War #loss #1860s
1865 [walt-whitman] When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Leaves of Grass

Whitman's great elegy for Lincoln — the lilac's perennial bloom, the drooping western star, and the hermit thrush singing death's carol in the swamps; the poem that transformed a president's death into a national rite of mourning.

#elegy #Lincoln #death #America #1860s

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