瓦特‧惠特曼 (Walt Whitman) 於1888年2月9日寫了一封信

你有沒有因為自己不滿意，所以一直重複修改一篇故事或詩作的經驗呢？瓦特‧惠特曼在1865年寫了這首「歐，船長！我的船長！」來描述林肯總統，但是他在1866年做了修改，到了1871年又修改了一次。

當這篇詩作的錯誤版本被河邊文學系列第32期 (Riverside Literature Series NO. 32) 出版之後，惠特曼在1888年2月9日寫信給出版社的編輯，他說：「不知道為什麼你們搞錯了我的詩作『歐，船長！』，我寄給你們正確的。」

你知道惠特曼為什麼要寫這首關於亞伯拉罕‧林肯的詩作嗎？


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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