What is the sailor trying to do?from the chapter O Captain! My Captain!
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The poem basically tells a story about the death of the captain of a ship men crew. The speaker of the poem is a sailor of the ship crew. He grieves mournfully about the death of his respectfully captain. Gloomy and dreary atmospheres are vividly sensed throughout the poem as the speaker lamenting the captain’s death.
The poem begins with the speaker calling out his captain that they have finally made it home after their “fearful trip”. The boat is in sight of land and the people in the shore watch as it approaches, cheering and ringing church bells. However, as it approaches the shore, the boat is described as “grim and daring”, as if the speaker warns that something terrible is going to happen. And terrible as it is, the captain on deck…show more content…
Finally, “his lips are pale and still” is representing the general state of death.
Another figurative language applied in this poem is apostrophe. Apostrophe is a kind of personification in which a person calls out to something or someone who isn’t there or can’t answer you back. Apostrophe can be seen in stanza 2, “O heart! heart! heart!”, as heart can’t answer the speaker. “O Captain! My Captain!” in stanza 3 is also an apostrophe, since the captain has already described “fallen cold and dead”. Lastly, “Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!”, as neither shores nor bells are actually alive.
Sound device that is used in this poem is rhyme. The rhyme pattern is aabb-xcxc. The end of each line of the last two stanzas in the following are colored with different colors to mark the rhyme.
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.
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what is the sailor trying to do fromthe chapter of ocaptain my captain