Who is the speaker in the poem o captain my captain?
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In "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, the speaker acts as if he has a close connection to Abraham Lincoln, saying:
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That suggests to me that the speaker in that poem is Whitman himself. Reynolds appears to share this view (emphasis mine): In Whitman's best-known poems about Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," the silencing of his former poetic self is noticeable.
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