![]() The narrator suddenly reveals that the Captain is dead and how devastating this is -"fallen cold and dead". KEEL= The principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached.īUT O HEART! HEART! HEART!= A heartbreaking imploration for the Captain to come alive again, expressing the poet’s refusal to accept his leader’s death.īLEEDING= Bloody, suggesting the color of blood. SOUGHT= (seek-sought-sought) To endeavor, to obtain or reach. The preservation and victory of the Union is a “prize” that was won. ![]() PRIZE= Something offered as an award for superiority or victory. WEATHERED= Worn, stained, or warped by or as if by exposure to weather. The Civil War is described as a “fearful trip”. ![]() OUR FEARFUL TRIP IS DONE= The poem’s opening tells of the Captain’s success in leading his ship through a long and gruelling voyage. The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done įrom fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills įor you bouquets and ribboned wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding įor you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done
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