Multiple choice general knowledge

Whose death is delineated in Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain My Captain"

  1. Abraham Lincoln

  2. George Washington

  3. John F Kennedy

  4. Thomas Jefferson
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Explanation

Walt Whitman wrote 'O Captain! My Captain!' as an elegy for Abraham Lincoln after his assassination in 1865. The poem uses the metaphor of a ship captain who dies just as the ship returns safely to port, symbolizing Lincoln's death at the end of the Civil War. George Washington, John F. Kennedy, and Thomas Jefferson were not the subjects of this poem.

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