O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain is a poem of Walt Whitman. It was composed in homage to the president Abraham Lincoln assassinated in 1865 and off appeared the same year in an appendix with the last version of Leaves Fatty .

The poem is composed of three Strophe S and starts with famous the apostrophizes: O Captain! my Captain!

Original text and its French translation

References in the popular culture

One of the most known references to this poem appears in the Film the Circle of the missing poets . The first day of his return to the University where he was pupil, John Keating, become professor of English (interpreted by Robin Williams) invites his pupils to call it: O Captain! My Captain!

In addition, following the assassination of Israeli the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, celebrates it Israeli compositrice Naomi Shemer translated the Hebrew poem in and put it in Musique. The Chanson became very popular.

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