How is it best to honor a great star after it has fallen and past on to death? For some, a mere funeral and wake would suffice, but for other monument are erected, schools and workplaces closed, parade and moment of silence where attributed to. Others like the late great Ray Charles movies are and to commemorate and celebrate their achievements over the years. So what then would you do for a person that freed millions, and united a country? For Walt Whitman he felt the best way to honor such a "star" was to dedicate at least four of is poem to such a great man. Out of the four poems dedicated the one best known as Abraham Lincoln's elegy is "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". This poem is one of Whitman rather lengthier poems, in which he utilizes a combination of tone, and symbolism to project his feeling and the nations lose.
Whitman exemplified his grief through many forms throughout "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," the one most vivid to reader is in the......
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