(A) All the poems Whitman wrote use pathos.
(B) ** Whitman’s poem is the emotional reaction to the death of Lincoln.
(C) For a poem to be good, it must use pathos.
(D) All poetry written about the Civil War uses pathos.
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Why is the use of pathos more appropriate in Whitman’s poem than in President Lincoln’s speech? All the poems Whitman wrote use pathos. Whitman’s poem is the emotional reaction to the death of Lincoln. For a poem to be good, it must use pathos.
Concept note-2: -"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the president’s assassination on 14 April of that year.
Concept note-3: -The American poet Walt Whitman greatly admired Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and was deeply affected by his assassination, writing several poems as elegies and giving a series of lectures on Lincoln. The two never met.
Concept note-4: -Walt Whitman wrote two memorial poems about the death of Abraham Lincoln. One, “O Captain, My Captain, ” is a fine piece of Victorian sentimentality, much anthologized and much recited on patriotic occasions: O Captain! my Captain!
Concept note-5: -Echoing the sentiment of the president’s Second Inaugural address, Whitman saw Lincoln’s death as penance for the sins of the nation that helped even the score of suffering between North and South and paved a way to reconciling a divided country.