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"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received upon publication, the poem was Whitman's first to be anthologized and the most popular during his lifetime.
Scholars have noted that the form of the poem follows the content: the wavelike quality of the long-then-short lines parallels the narrative thread of the poem. The extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" represents travelling serenely and securely from life into death. The Pilot is a metaphor for God, whom the speaker hopes to meet face to face.
Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, "Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,' a poem in which the metaphors of Eden and the Fall cohere with the idea of felix culpa." [5]
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, ... the world itself is God's poem [59] and metaphor is not just a literary or rhetorical figure but an analytic tool that can ...
Hughes's poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Mother to Son", and "Harlem" were described in the Encyclopedia of African-American Writing as "anthems of black America". [14] The poem utilizes a river as a metaphor for Hughes's life and the broader African-American experience. [10]
The mother in the poem uses a metaphor of a staircase to convey "the hardships of Black life" while also her progress and perseverance. [ 6 ] : 35 As the woman is climbing the stairs, she becomes almost comparable to a religious figure ascending into the heavens, yet remains simply human.
In Stefan Collini's opinion, "Dover Beach" is a difficult poem to analyze, and some of its passages and metaphors have become so well known that they are hard to see with "fresh eyes". [4] Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which auditory imagery plays a significant role ("Listen! you hear the ...
Gorillaz refers to the albatross in the song "Hip Albatross", as a metaphor for the burden of the undead. Judy Collins uses albatross as a metaphor in the song, "Albatross" in 1967. The UK dark wave band Lebanon Hanover has a song entitled "Albatross", from the album Why Not Just Be Solo (2012). The lyrics of the song use the bird as metaphor.