Poetry. Whitman

Poetry

A literary work that uses concise, colorful, often rhythmic language to express ideas or emotions.

Poetry.

Poetic Form (Incorporar)

Alliteration

The repetition of initial consonant sounds used especially in poetry to emphasize and link words as well as to create pleasing, musical sounds.

Alliteration

Poetic Devices: Alliteration (Incorporar)

sound effect.  Two or more words with same repetition or initial letter.  Initial sound of a word either beginning or end, consonant/ vowel one repeated in close succession.  “Nate never knows”

Alliteration:

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Poetry: Alliteration.

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

This poem is written in the form of an elegy meaning a funeral song. Whitman used very strong figurative language throughout the poem to express his respect and to mourn the loss of Abraham Lincoln. The expression of mourning and grief mark the center of the poem. However, what stays in the mind of the readers is the speaker’s passionate expression of his love for his dead captain.

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.

O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman (Incorporar)

An elegy is a poem of mourning.  Most elegies are about someone who has died.  Some elegies mourn a way of life that is gone forever.  “O Captain!  My Captain!” mourns the tragic death of President Abraham Lincoln. The poem was written in honor of President Lincoln following his assassination, and it also has celebratory passages that mark the end of the Civil War.

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | O Captain! My Captain! (Incorporar)

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.

The poem comprises sentiments of the speaker at the demise of his captain. The speaker admires his captain for the victory they have won together. The major theme that runs throughout the poem is the death of Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War, which deprived the United States of the great president. Each stanza gives us a clue about the war.    Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in the same lines of the poetry such as the use of /f/ in “flag is flung” and the sound of /s/ in “safe and sound.”

About the movie "Dead Poets Society"

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