Walt Whitman's quote "Oh, captain my captain"

Do you think ofLincoln like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58RPS665V0    

Or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B73vkTeL_g  

"Oh, captain my captain" Quote

This quote was taken from one of Walt
Whitman's poems.  This poem talks about

a Captain that found the treasure;
however, after he found what he was

looking for forever he dies.

Lincoln's assassination inspired Walt Whitman to write the poem.

Lincoln was a well known person and he saved the Union.

This was his main purpose but while he was trying to succeed he came along another task.

He would emancipate slavery.

Walt Whitman had lived in Washington for mist of the civil wsar and Lincoln was his hero.

Like the captain in his poem Lincoln was killed after he completed his mission and would be remembered forever as the slavery emancipator.

However, in the Dead Poet Society John Keating, a high school teacher, uses this quote in a different way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJsjNNp0foE

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