O Captain! My Captain!

Genres: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)Poetry

Narrators:Ben Adams, elliot, Bruce Kachuk, Donald Cummings, Joy Baker, Jason Mills, J Korth, Jesse Liwag, Julia Niedermaier, KHand, Lee Ann Howlett, Laurie Anne Walden, Leonard Wilson, MaryAnn, MEita, michellejoseph, Rosslyn Carlyle, Winston Tharp

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1. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BA
2. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BAG
3. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BK
4. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by DAC
5. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCB
6. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCM
7. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JK
8. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JL
9. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JN
10. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by KJH
11. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAH
12. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAW
13. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LLW
14. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MAS
15. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by ME
16. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MJ
17. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by RC
18. O Captain! My Captain! - Read by WT

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014.

"O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)