O Captain My Captain Figurative Language

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If you like mystery, than you’ll definitely be interested in reading these two poems. Both have very emotional and sad tones with very interesting stories. The poems are O Captain! My Captain by Walt Whitman and The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe. O Captain! My Captain is about a Captain who died in battle but won the battle for his men, and the person who talks in the poem is one of his men and he talks about the Captain lying dead on the floor of the ship. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is about a man who was driven by God to get himself threw the war and he says that God was by his side all through the war. These two poems star through their creative use of figurative language, alliteration, allusion, and also through their very emotional tones throughout the poems.These two poems are very exciting and interesting to read and you will be very excited to read them and learn about them because they will definitely make you think. …show more content…

Some examples of how it has a rhyme scheme are like, “ My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, my father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will¨(Whitman 376). Also another example is how a few sentences end with the some lettering of like one like done and won. Some examples of figurative language in this poem are how he talks about his Captain lying still and dead on the floor because of how much detail he uses when he talks about it, another would be how he talked about his father having no pulse or will (376). Also you can tell that the author has a very emotional tone in this poem because of the way he talks about the

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