" For 10 points, name this subject of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain!
A poem by E. A. Robinson refers to this figure as "elemental when he died, as he was ancient at his birth." That poem is "The Master." Another poem about this figure asks a gray-brown bird to "sing out! Sing out" from "the swamps, the recesses." The speaker of that poem notes, "the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, and [I] thought of him I love." In another poem about this figure, the narrator announces that "the ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won" before screaming "O heart! heart! O drops of bleeding red!" For 10 points, name this subject of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!"
A poem by E. A. Robinson refers to this figure as "elemental when he died, as he was ancient at his birth."
Abraham Lincoln