Walt Whitman: Poems

How does the poet try to rouse the captain ?

Oh captain my captain

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Despite the celebrations on land and the successful voyage, the speaker reveals that his Captain's dead body is lying on the deck. In the second stanza, the speaker implores the Captain to "rise up and hear the bells," wishing the dead man could witness the elation

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