

How ever when in the poem and how the writer is talking first person takes me to assume this was also a message about someone he very much cared and loved for. The reasoning behind my idea was that it talked about a boat and people cheering them and giving them appraisal seems to me assuming they were out and discovered a lot of mysteries and had a successful voyage on there ship. My original thought was that this poem was created in the 18th century before Abraham Lincoln was born. I had only realised after studying and doing more research on the poem and its true meaning what it actually meant, I do now realise what the poem is about. It’s touching how they barely knew each other but how much Abraham Lincoln meant to what Walt Whitman to referee to him as a father figure. For me to realise that such a man as himself would right a one day to be remembered poem about Abraham Lincoln. What drew me to the poem was the poetic device rhyme, seeing how simple but meaningful the poem is.
