when was the poem published?
November 4, 1865
O Captain! My Captain!
November 4, 1865
o captain my captain what is it about About the death of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. what is it poem or story? Poem who wrote this poem? Walt Whitman
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O Captain! My Captain! [SEP] Publication history
Helen Vendler thinks it likely that Whitman wrote the poem before "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and considers it a direct response to "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". An early draft of the poem is written in free verse."" "My Captain" was first published in "The Saturday Press" on November 4, 1865, around two weeks before the publication closed. Around the same time it was included in Whitman's book, "Sequel to Drum-Taps" publication in "The Saturday Press" was considered a "teaser" for the book. It was then included in the 1867 edition of "Leaves of Grass." Whitman revised the poem several times during his life, including in the 1871 "Passage to India." Its final republication by Whitman was in the 1881 edition of "Leaves of Grass.