The Assassination In Walt Whiteman's O Capitan !

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In 1865, just after five days the confederate surrender America went in shocking sorrow what had happened to the United States president Abraham Lincoln assassination. Many writers articulated their feeling about the assassination in their perspective ways. One of the American famous poet, essayist and journalist Walt Whiteman, express his depth wound by writing the poem “O Capitan! My Capitan!” In this work, Walt flooded with full of magnificent figurative languages to show how deeply he has saddens losing the Lincolns.