You’ve learned that an elegy is a poem written to express grief over death. How does knowing that this is an elegy help you understand the central idea Whitman is trying to convey you? ( O captain! My captain)

Rural:resentment against the policies of the loyal government and the practice of the great landlord; peasants wanted to abolish serfdoms, labor, services and tithes as well as poll taxes Urban: wages and taxes; denial of poorest worker’s own guilds and no collective voice that could influence the government.

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