LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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President Lincoln’s death
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winning the Civil War
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discovery of a treasure
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the ship’s arrival in port
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Detailed explanation-1: -The prize is the independence from the slavery which was a prize of struggling for attaining independence from slavery. They fought the war and won it and the independence which they got after winning the war was like a prize for the struggle that they had done.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; What does “the prize we sought is won” refer to? The North has won the Civil War. Read Lincoln’s statement from “The Gettysburg Address."
Detailed explanation-3: -Walt Whitman wrote “O Captain, My Captain!” as a dedication to Abraham Lincoln. Although it seems like it is just a poem about a sea captain who dies at the end of a victorious voyage, it really refers to Lincoln ‘s untimely death shortly after his victory in the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -The following lines are from the first out of three stanzas. The captain in the poem refers to Abraham Lincoln who is the captain of the ship, representing the United States of America: O Captain! My Captain!