O Captain! My Captain!: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

O Captain! My Captain!, credited to Walt Whitman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. Read in English by Ben Adams, elliot, Bruce Kachuk, Donald Cummings, Joy Baker, Jason Mills, J Korth, Jesse Liwag, Julia Niedermaier, KHand, Lee Ann Howlett, Laurie Anne Walden, Leonard Wilson, MaryAnn, MEita, michellejoseph, Rosslyn Carlyle, and Winston Tharp. LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014. "O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

Recording facts

• Recording title: O Captain! My Captain!
• Author credits: Walt Whitman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 36:40

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• elegy
• civil war
• Abraham Lincoln
• grief
• Walt Whitman
• mourning

Track guide

1. 01 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BA — 2:02
2. 02 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BAG — 1:57
3. 03 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by BK — 2:06
4. 04 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by DAC — 1:48
5. 05 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCB — 2:17
6. 06 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JCM — 1:54
7. 07 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JK — 1:58
8. 08 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JL — 2:02
9. 09 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by JN — 2:18
10. 10 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by KJH — 1:34
11. 11 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAH — 1:57
12. 12 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LAW — 1:46
13. 13 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by LLW — 2:21
14. 14 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MAS — 2:51
15. 15 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by ME — 2:05
16. 16 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by MJ — 1:56
17. 17 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by RC — 1:54
18. 18 - O Captain! My Captain! - Read by WT — 1:53

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