Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!."

Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

What is the speaker referring to?

Abraham Lincoln has tragically died.
A captain has died on his ship.
Lincoln fell and was seriously injured.
A captain told lies, so he was punished.

O, Captain! My Captain! is a poem by Walt Whitman. It portrays Lincoln as the captain of the ship. From the lines, the speaker is referring to the tragic death of Abraham Lincoln. Thus, option a is correct.

What is the idea of the poem?

Abraham Lincoln is portrayed as the ship captain in Whitman's poem O, Captain! My Captain! It is a poem about Lincoln's career, his greatness, and his fall (death).

It is an extended metaphor that celebrates and mourns the arrival of the ship and Lincoln's death. It is a poem of both loss and celebration as their leader died but they won by the end of the civil war.

Therefore, the poet is referring to Lincoln's tragic death.

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Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!." Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. What is the speaker referring to? Abraham Lincoln has tragically died. A captain has died on his ship. Lincoln fell and was seriously injured. A captain told lies, so he was punished.

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