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How do you think the speaker of the poem feels about Abraham Lincoln? Support your answer with examples from the poem

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What is the poem that this question is asking about??

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Who is the speaker of the poem O Captain My Captain?

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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