O Captain! My Captain!

About this film

LibriVox recording of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. Read in English by 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, and Winston Tharp. 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) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (17MB)

Directors & creators

Walt Whitman

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;poetry; elegy; civil war; Abraham Lincoln; grief; Walt Whitman; mourning

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