AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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The Civil war
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Voyage
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Abraham Lincoln
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Trip form England to the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -“The fearful trip” is the Civil War, which had ended just prior to Lincoln’s assassination. Thus the ship is returning home to cheering crowds having won “the prize” of victory, just as the Union, led by Lincoln, had returned victorious from the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the poem Whitman likened the presidency of Lincoln to a captain steering a ship. The fearful trip was the American Civil War that was ending, but whose end was not formalized. Lincoln was assassinated in April and the surrender of the Confederacy was less than one month later in May 1865.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fallen cold and dead. In the first stanza, Whitman calls upon the Captain (Lincoln) of the Ship (USA) that ‘fearful trip’ (dreadful Civil War) has come to an end. The people have won the victory at last, which they quested for i.e. the victory of the union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer. in poem o captain my captain In what way was the trip fearful? A ship’s trip can be fearful because there are many natural and man-made dangers in the sea. But the “fearful trip” that Whitman is referring to is the Civil War, during which he’d volunteered as a nurse in the army hospitals.