Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!". O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; What does “our fearful trip is done” refer to?

The poem uses the ship’s voyage as a metaphor for the Union’s struggle during the Civil War. The “fearful trip” is the difficult, dangerous journey through the war, and its being “done” means the war has ended. So the line refers to the end of the war, not simply a literal trip or the ship docking.

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