Posted by joanna on November 09, 19100 at 23:01:00:

In Reply to: Please HELP, can someone explain O Captain to me posted by Rachael on October 30, 19100 at 14:38:23:

hi i can help you with O Captain O Captain.]

the way this poem is writen is that Walt whitmen is trying to say that they have made the trip and the trip was a very long trip therefore when they arrive there ship has been through a lot and its very awful looking like beaten up and falling a part. " The port is near" this means that they have made it to there destiny and there is a crowd of people waiting for their arrival with bells ringing. The captain the is cold and dead is his father and i think was shot when the arrived there.
The writer is saying O Captain O Captain because all the people waiting ahead are waiting for his father and he's trying to make him get up for the people. "its some dream that on the deck you fallen cold and dead" This means that the writer is thinking in his mind that he's not dead and all of what has happened is a dream but only he has to face reality to find out it's not a dream but real. the object won is his father because that what the people were waiting for, his arrival
and all the writer can think about is that all of what they have done was nuthin because his father is dead and there's nuthin he can do.

this is what i see when i read this and we both know that we wont know what he's really talking about because he wrote it and all you have to do it write about what you think it means and that is all that is needed!!

i hope this is use for you good luck!

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