In the poem, Lincoln is represented by the captain and the United States of America is the ship. The ship has endured obstacles such as Civil War, and there is peace.
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The speaker is feeling bittersweet about the victory.
The poem begins with a description of a ship returning safely to port. Crying out for his captain, the speaker realizes the captain has died at sea.
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The onlookers onshore celebrate the ship's safe return, but the speaker mourns the death of his captain. As the voyage ends, so does the captain's life.
With a conventional meter and rhyme scheme that is unusual for Whitman, it was also the only poem anthologized during Whitman's lifetime.
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