Based on the extended metaphor, how does the speaker feel toward abraham lincoln? the speaker is annoyed that lincoln receives so much attention when he returns. the speaker is with lincoln's actions but believes the army deserves the credit. the speaker wants to honor and celebrate lincoln's accomplishment of winning the war. the speaker wants to show how the confederate army's cause was doomed.

The correct answer is “The speaker wants to honor and celebrate Lincoln's accomplishment of winning the war. “

Indeed, Walt Whitman lived through the Civil War and came to admire and appreciate Lincoln for his efforts to preserve the Union up to his ultimate sacrifice. This is called an elegy, i.e. a poem that celebrates the accomplishments of a person who has died and laments such demise. In this extended metaphor the ship is the USA, the Union and naturally the Captain is its president, Lincoln. Like a ship, the Union has survived a storm that  “weather'd every rack”  of the ship and the poem has a bittersweet flavor for it both celebrates the hard won victory but mourns the death of the person most responsible for it.

The right answer is c. the speaker wants to honor and celebrate Lincoln's accomplishment of winning the war

Explanation:

The all respect Lincoln very much and throughout the poem you can note that the author has love for him as if he where his very father.

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