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=Proposed edits to Wikipedia's O Captain! My Captain! article for ENG1300= Add here the issues you see with your current article that you might address. The current article (April, 2015) has little more than an introduction, so it is in need of almost everything. The following categories could all be added:
 * 1) Summary
 * 2) Narrator & Point of View
 * 3) Characters
 * 4) Poetic Form
 * 5) Symbolism

Reading List
A numbered list of all your readings go here. Use the following format:
 * 1) College Board. (2014). Historical Heroes: Examples.
 * 2) Barrett, F. (2005). Addresses to a divided nation: Images of war in emily dickinson and walt whitman.

Original
The third stanza begins in a somber mood as the poet has finally accepted that the Captain is dead and gone. Here there is vivid and darker imagery such as "his lips are pale and still" and the reader can picture the dead Captain lying there still and motionless with "no pulse nor will". In line 17, the poet calls out "My Captain," and in line 18, the poet refers to the Captain as "My father". This is referring to Lincoln as the father of the United States. Lines 19 and 20 are concluding statements that summarize the entire poem. The United States is "anchor'd safe and sound". It is safe now from war with "its voyage closed and done, from fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won". The country has accomplished its goal of the abolishment of slavery and the unification of people after a fearful war. In line 21, the examples of apostrophe, ordering "shores to exult," and "bells to ring" are again referring to how the nation is celebrating while "I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead".

Revised
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Original Contribution to O Captain! My Captain!
Poems can do something like sing songs. “O Captain! My Captain” is a popular poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln, the only poem of Walt Whitman’s that rhymes and seems song-like. Like songs, poems can vary widely in tone. Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain uses allegory literary techniques extending a metaphors through the entire poem, so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. The allegory representing the death of President Abraham Lincoln, who represents the Captain, America representing the ship, and his reign in Presidency celebrating what Abraham Lincoln accomplished, representing the trip or voyage.

Although the apostrophe to the moon represents a retreat from Whitman's stylistic innovations, in "Look Down Fair Moon" that retreat does not offer the same kind of resolution it provides in the Lincoln elegies. In "O Captain! My Captain!", for example, Whitman responds to the crisis of Lincoln's death by writing an elegy which reverts to the formal constraints of the lyric tradition both in its metrical regularity and in its repeated use of the apostrophe.35 The catalogue of poetic techniques employed in "O Captain! My Captain!" has the cumulative effect of erasing the historical specificity of Lincoln's death and inserting the poem into the timeless elegiac tradition of "Lycidas" and "Adonais." The poem thus provides resolution by establishing Lincoln's death as a heroic one through association with the elegiac tradition.