The speaker feels great sadness and loss about Abraham Lincoln. The speaker refers to Lincoln as "my captain" and says "the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won". This suggests the speaker sees Lincoln as a leader who guided the nation through difficulty but is now gone.
The speaker feels great sadness and loss about Abraham Lincoln. The speaker refers to Lincoln as "my captain" and says "the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won". This suggests the speaker sees Lincoln as a leader who guided the nation through difficulty but is now gone.
The speaker feels great sadness and loss about Abraham Lincoln. The speaker refers to Lincoln as "my captain" and says "the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won". This suggests the speaker sees Lincoln as a leader who guided the nation through difficulty but is now gone.