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-When poet Walt Whitman wrote, "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won...," who was he calling his captain?

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Walt Whitman's 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" was a eulogy for President Abraham Lincoln following his 1865 assassination. Each stanza of the poem ends with the author describing the lost leader as "Fallen cold and dead." The prize to which Whitman referred was the preservation of the Union in the Civil War. The poem eventually appeared in his epic collection of poetry entitled Leaves of Grass, which also featured "Song of Myself," "Song of the Open Road," and "I Sing the Body Electric."

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