Walt Whitman: Poems

When there is a contrast between appearance and reality, irony results. Why is it ironic that the crowds are celebrating in this poem.

O captain! My captain!

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I think the poem is an elegy to the dead, which is a solemn occasion yet the crowds are celebrating.

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