Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. Walt Whitman's elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" contains an extended metaphor.
Match the words or phrases from the poem with their meanings as part of the metaphor. Ship prize captain fearful trip the Civil War arrowRight victory arrowRight Abraham Lincoln arrowRight the Union arrowRight
Walt Whitman's elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor wherein the captain of the ship is Abraham Lincoln. The ship is the Union. The fearful trip the Captain undertakes is the Civil War and his prize at the end is victory. The poem begins with the speaker celebrating the victory that the captain has just won, eventually the speaker notices that the captain lies dead on the ship.
