What is this poem saying about abraham Lincoln?

What is this poem saying about abraham Lincoln?
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; 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 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!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d 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 bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Answer by jayleites
Captain: the war is over. We won, but you’re dead.

Answer by DEFHALEN1
Basically it is saying that Abraham Lincoln succeeded in what he was put here to do while he was still alive.

He had completed his mission. He kept the Union together before he was murdered.

The ship that is anchored safe and sound is the Union that he guided through the Civil War. The “object won” is a the unified country.

The fallen cold and dead parts are self-explanatory.

That’s the basics from just a quick reading of the poem.

Answer by EМ♥♥JAY
I think it’s saying that the slaves have been freed, the war is over, but now the captain of the nation is dead

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sucide poem by Abraham Lincoln?
did Abraham Lincoln write a poem about sucide if so does anybody know where i can find it

Answer by VISION
please ask him

Answer by ~*~*~*~
It is a poem attributed to Lincoln, but I guess the scholars are split as to whether he really wrote it.

Wikipedia seems to have the best internet information on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_of_Abraham_Lincoln

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suicide%27s_Soliloquy

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I need help on a I am poem for Abraham Lincoln?
thank you

Answer by mike c
Use his most famous poem –
How Few Remain

Answer by Sophia S
I’m not quite sure what the question is, but a poem about Lincoln, written in his honor is “Oh, Captain, My Captain.”

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