Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread. Walk the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Context: These lines are taken from Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman.

Explanation: The poem is written in a form of an elegy and is aimed to honour the sixteenth president of the United States. The entire poem itself provides an extended metaphor that implies comparisons between seemingly dissimilar things, for the U.S. after the Civil War and the killing of the President Lincoln. The civil war fought under Lincoln’s leadership is called a dangerous voyage. As the captain is brave and skilful, he brings the ship home after the successful completion of the voyage. The speaker in the narrative is a sailor on a ship that is just coming into a harbour and he can hear bells ringing and see crowds cheering on the road for their safe return. The sailor has just realized that the ship’s captain is lying on the ship’s deck bleeding and appears to be dead.

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