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Walt Whitman's "Captain" represents Abraham Lincoln. In the poem it says 'our fearful trip is done', meaning the civil war. The phrase 'the prize we sought is won', means Union victory. The part where it says the captain is dead it is symbolic of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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