瓦特．惠特曼 (Walt Whitman) 于1888年2月9日写了一封信

你有没有因为自己不满意，所以一直重复更改一篇故事或诗作的经验呢？瓦特．惠特曼在1865年写了这首「欧，船长！我的船长！」来描述林肯总统，但是他在1866年做了更改，到了1871年又更改了一次。

当这篇诗作的错误版本被河边文学系列第32期 (Riverside Literature Series NO. 32) 出版之后，惠特曼在1888年2月9日写信给出版社的编辑，他说：「不知道为什么你们搞错了我的诗作『欧，船长！』，我寄给你们正确的。」

你知道惠特曼为什么要写这首关于亚伯拉罕．林肯的诗作吗？


Have you ever kept rewriting a story or poem because you just weren't satisfied with it? Walt Whitman wrote his poem about President Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!" in 1865, but he revised it in 1866, and again in 1871.

After the wrong version of his poem was published in the Riverside Literature Series No. 32, Whitman wrote to the publishers on February 9, 1888. "Somehow you have got a couple of bad perversions in 'O Captain,'" he wrote, "I send you a corrected sheet."

Do you know why Whitman wrote the poem about Abraham Lincoln?

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