Where on the deck my Captain lies, fallen cold and dead. This is my favorite line from the poem O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. Everyone in our class had to choose a classic poem to memorize for a school wide competition called the WW Fenn. I chose the poem O Captain! My Captain! because I didn’t want anything to long because I’m not very good at memorizing but I didn’t want to choose anything to short or else it would look like I just choose the easiest piece I could find. I found a random poetry website and was only finding poems that were really good but way to long. Then I found O Captain! My Captain! The words that are used in this poem would make you think that it’s a poem about a captain on a ship but it’s actually about the death of Abraham Lincoln. When I heard that we only had one week to memorize our whole poem I was a bit worried, but now that were a few days in I realize that it’s not as hard as I thought it would be originally all you have to do is keep practicing.