Walt Whitman

Question 0

What is “O Captain, My Captain” about?

Answer 0

A great voyage has just successfully been completed (Civil War or Slavery or Both) but the occasion is bittersweet because the captain has died (Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination). - possible essay question

Question 1

What is “O captain, My Captain” about?

Answer 1

It is a poem about the death of his friend, Abraham Lincoln