O Captain! My Captain!
Author(s): Walt Whitman
Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)
Narrators: Ben Adams, Elliot, Bruce Kachuk, Donald Cummings, Joy Baker, Jason Mills, J Korth, Jesse Liwag, Julia Niedermaier, KHand, Lee Ann Howlett, Laurie Anne Walden, Leonard Wilson, MaryAnn, MEita, Michellejoseph, Rosslyn Carlyle, Winston Tharp
Number of Chapters: 18
Length: 36 minutes
Language: English
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014.
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)