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Warm lips are red, blood drops are too, Abe Lincoln was shot, the nation was blue. In the poem" O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, the color red is used as a symbol for many objects. Red symbolizes blood shed, life, happiness and it also associates with love, life, and vitality. Other things that can relate to red are compassion, hatred, and pain. These elements are what gives the poem its voice and tone in a metaphoric way. The writer purposely uses Throughout the poem, even though there is no repetition of the word red, it can be related to many other elements in the poem, such as "death". The phrase "fallen cold and dead" repeated at the end of each stanza emphasizes on the death of the captain and how red or "blood" can be used to relate to it. Also red indicates blood that was shed when Linc
The poem revolves around the end of life. "The people all exulting", happiness is shown in this phrase which is ironically matched with the another phrase "O bleeding drops of red" the contrast in between is ironic. Happiness and death compared by "bleeding away life" both relate "My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still" this phrase clearly shows that there is no longer life. Pale can represent the synonyms cold, dead, and lifeless. When lips are warm, it has a nice shade of "red" to it, meaning life. When it is pale, it means that there is no longer life, that life has been drained away. The color red is striking to the eye and the mind. The speaker's purpose of this word choice is so that this word will not be left unheeded, that it will stick and stand out to the reader. Red, head and dead
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Approximate Word count = 548
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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