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Poem
rack: a windy storm vessel: a ship
ACTIVITY 3.3
My Notes
Interpret the Text using Close Reading
Learning Target
• Apply understanding of how an allegory is structured to comprehend a text.
Read and annotate
Read “O Captain! My Captain!” and annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the poem. ■ Underline words and phrases related to ships.
■ Put a star next to any repeated phrases.
■ Circle unknown words and phrases.
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
5 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;
10 Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
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