5. How did the people want to honour the Captain on the shore? How does this contrast with some dream the narrator sees on the deck?
6. Does the persona also rejoice with the people? Why/Why not? Substantiate your answer with words/phrases from the poem.
7. What is the fearful trip being referred to? How is it related to American history?
8. Why is the captain referred to as Dear Father? Why is the death of the captain ironic?
it is from chapter o captain my captain
Answers
Answer:
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Answer:
How did the people want to honour the Captain on the shore? How does this contrast with some dream the narrator sees on the deck?
6. Does the persona also rejoice with the people? Why/Why not? Substantiate your answer with words/phrases from the poem.
7. What is the fearful trip being referred to? How is it related to American history?
8. Why is the captain referred to as Dear Father? Why is the death of the captain ironic?
it is from chapter o captain my captain