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In “O Captain! My Captain!” who is the captain that the poet speaks of? Abraham Lincoln Jane Addams Ulysses S. Grant Walt Whitman

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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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The speaker is speaking of Abraham Lincoln. The ship is the United States of America. This poem is written after the death of Abraham Lincoln and is about the loss of him as the leader of the American people. The entire poem is an extended metaphor that compares Abraham Lincoln to the captain of a ship.

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