1、,Make Presentation much more fun,A study on rhetorical devices of the poemO Captain! My Captain!by group1:,Contents,Introduction Analysis of the poem Conclusion,Introduction,Walt Whitman(1819-1892) One of the great innovators in American literature He gave America its first genuine epic poem: Leaves
2、 of Grass,Leaves of Grass,Make Presentation much more fun,This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is. This is the common air that bath the golbe.,Make Presentation much more fun,“O Captain! My Captain” 啊， 船长！ 我的船长！ by Walt Whitman The poem is an elegy on the death of Presiden
3、t Abraham Lincoln The poem is highly popular among American people.,O Captain! My Captain!,Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weatherd every rack, the prize we sought is worn, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the
4、 vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red! Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.,O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbond wreaths-for you the sh
5、ores crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here, Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck Youve fallen cold and dead.,O Captain! My Captain!,My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel
6、 my arm, he has no pulse or will; The ship is anchord safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult, O Shores! and ring, O bell! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.,O Captain! My Captain!,Mak
7、e Presentation much more fun,Analysis of the poemStudy on the rhetorical devices of the poem,Rhetorical devices修辞手法,Repetition 重复,Metaphor 暗喻,The author eulogized and commemorated Lincoin through these rhetorical devices.,The use of metaphor,In this poem, the topic and work throughout the “captain“
8、is typical of the metaphor.,Further explanation,The metaphoric meaning is that Lincoln led the US during the tough times of the US civil war, abolished slavery and kept the union together after the civil war.,The use of repetition,Make Presentation much more fun,Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip
9、 is done, The ship has weatherd every rack, the prize we sought is worn, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red! Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold
10、and dead.,Make Presentation much more fun,O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbond wreaths-for you the shores crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here, Captain! de
11、ar father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck Youve fallen cold and dead.,Make Presentation much more fun,My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse or will; The ship is anchord safe and sound, its voyage closed
12、 and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult, O Shores! and ring, O bell! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.,Make Presentation much more fun,cold and dead,The repetitious use of “cold and dead” in the poem enforces a sorro
13、wful effect of art. And it emphasizes the cruel fact that captain is dead. Let readers feel his sorrow.,Make Presentation much more fun,Conclusion,The poem expresses Whitmans deep sorrow for the death of Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated on April 14 1865. The author uses rhetorical devices , metaphor and repetition , to eulogize and commemorate Lincoln in the pome.,
