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misslovel...

February 13, 2009 05:10 AM

what are the similarities between "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

both poems are by Walt Whitman
the similarities can not be obvious
for example: there are O's reapeated through out both writings

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jeffhoard

February 13, 2009 08:06 PM

Both poems were inspired by the death of Abraham Lincoln
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Lilacs_Last_in_the_Dooryard_Bloom%27d
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/whitman/lilacsweb....
http://www.bartleby.com/142/193.html

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