o captain my captain
O Captain, my captain “O Captain, my captain” by Walt Whitman describes how a ship is coming home from a voyage. The townspeople are all excited but the sailors are depressed because the captain has died. By using onomatopoeia, diction, and imagery the reader is able to see the sailor’s grief in losing their captain/father. ... Through sounds like crying, the reader gets the impression how the sailors are expressing their grief over losing their father/captain.