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the allsion is the Abe Lincoln is the captain and he dies

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The allusion in "O Captain! My Captain!" is to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The poem was written by Walt Whitman as an elegy for Lincoln, using the metaphor of a ship's captain to represent the president and the journey of the nation.

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