When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
elegy
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poem → |
| addressee |
Abraham Lincoln
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| author |
Walt Whitman
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| collection |
Sequel to Drum-Taps
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| firstPublicationYear |
1865
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1866 → |
| form |
free verse
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| genre |
elegy
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lyric poetry → |
| hasTone |
contemplative
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mournful → |
| historicalContext |
end of the American Civil War
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| influenced |
American elegiac tradition
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| influencedBy |
American Civil War
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| language |
English
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| literaryPeriod |
19th century American literature
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| mainSubject |
American Civil War
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assassination of Abraham Lincoln → death → grief → mourning → national loss → nature → |
| meter |
free verse
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| movement |
American Romanticism
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Transcendentalism → |
| notableFor |
innovative free verse form
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lyrical meditation on grief → public elegy for a national leader → use of nature imagery → |
| partOf |
Leaves of Grass
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| setting |
American landscape
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rural dooryard → |
| symbol |
coffin
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lilac → spring → thrush → western star → |
| theme |
memory
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national trauma → public and private mourning → reconciliation with death → relationship between nature and death → |
| writtenBy |
Walt Whitman
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| writtenInResponseTo |
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
("Sequel to Drum-Taps")
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Leaves of Grass
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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Walt Whitman
("When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd")
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