Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!." Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. What is the speaker referring to?

The captain is a metaphor for Abraham Lincoln, and the ship’s successful voyage represents the Union’s survival through the Civil War. The words “Fallen cold and dead” mean the captain has died, so the speaker is expressing grief over Lincoln’s assassination. Choice C, “Abraham Lincoln has tragically died,” is correct.

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