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Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" was written on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman compares the nation to a ship that had just returned form sea (i.e. the country had just pulled itself out of civil war), and Lincoln to the ship's captain, slain upon returning home (Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the South surrendered).

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