![]() ![]() The poem describes Lincoln as having saved the union of the United States from "the foulest crime in history", a line for which conflicting interpretations exist. The poem has not attracted much individual attention, though it was generally positively received and has been analyzed several times, generally as an epitaph for Lincoln. Whitman had written three previous poems about Lincoln, all in 1865: " O Captain! My Captain!", " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and " Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". ![]() ![]() The poem was written six years after Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, whom Whitman greatly admired. " This Dust Was Once the Man" is an elegy poem written by Walt Whitman in 1871. The poem as it appears in Leaves of Grass (1871)
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