O Captain! My Captain!


Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

(4.9 stars; 9 reviews)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014.

"O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) (0 hr 36 min)

Kapitel

O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BA 2:02 Gelesen von Ben Adams
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BAG 1:57 Gelesen von elliot
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BK 2:06 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by DAC 1:48 Gelesen von Donald Cummings
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCB 2:17 Gelesen von Joy Baker
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCM 1:55 Gelesen von Jason Mills
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JK 1:58 Gelesen von J Korth
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JL 2:02 Gelesen von Jesse Liwag
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JN 2:18 Gelesen von Julia Niedermaier
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by KJH 1:34 Gelesen von KHand
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAH 1:57 Gelesen von Lee Ann Howlett
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAW 1:46 Gelesen von Laurie Anne Walden
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LLW 2:21 Gelesen von Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MAS 2:51 Gelesen von MaryAnn
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by ME 2:05 Gelesen von MEita
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MJ 1:56 Gelesen von michellejoseph
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by RC 1:54 Gelesen von Rosslyn Carlyle
O Captain! My Captain! - Read by WT 1:53 Gelesen von Winston Tharp

Bewertungen

Your fear filled journeys finished...thats not it?¿


(5 stars)

The 1st line is what I say to every taxi driver & none of them have realised what condition the captain is actually in! Ah well...theres alwaya a 1st time. Well spoken narrators, well pronounced by all as theres some words that are a bit tricky in this poem.