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Stein, Sadie (18 June 2015). "Say Your Prayers". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Although the robin is said to be connected to Thor in Norse mythology, due to it being a storm-cloud bird, and Thor being the god of thunder, on deeper inspection, the robin is after all connected to Odinn – the Allfather of the Norse pantheon, as well, who was also a psychopomp and a wielder of the Sacred Fire. Bond, Margaret E. (5 August 2019). "Poetry in Context: "Vespers" ". Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Idato, Michael (August 13, 2014). "Robin Williams death: Jimmy Fallon fights tears, pays tribute with 'Oh Captain, My Captain' ". The Sydney Morning Herald. ISSN 0312-6315 . Retrieved October 12, 2020. Reynolds, David S. (1995). Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York City: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0195170092.

Literary critic Helen Vendler thinks it likely that Whitman wrote the poem before "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", considering it a direct response to "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". [23] An early draft of the poem is written in free verse. [24] "My Captain" was first published in The Saturday Press on November 4, 1865. [d] [15] [26] Around the same time, it was included in Whitman's book, Sequel to Drum-Taps—publication in The Saturday Press was considered a " teaser" for the book. Although Sequel to Drum-Taps was first published in early October 1865, [27] the copies were not ready for distribution until December. [28] The first publication of the poem had different punctuation than Whitman intended, and he corrected before its next publication. [29] It was also included in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass. [15] [30] Whitman revised the poem several times during his life, [31] including in his 1871 collection Passage to India. Its final republication by Whitman was in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. [30] Hamish Whyte is a Scottish poet who has published pamphlets and full collections, as well as editing several anthologies. He also runs Mariscat Press. Walt Whitman established his reputation as a poet in the late 1850s to early 1860s with the 1855 release of Leaves of Grass. Whitman intended to write a distinctly American epic and developed a free verse style inspired by the cadences of the King James Bible. [2] [3] The brief volume, first released in 1855, was considered controversial by some, [4] with critics particularly objecting to Whitman's blunt depictions of sexuality and the poem's "homoerotic overtones". [5] Whitman's work received significant attention following praise for Leaves of Grass by American transcendentalist lecturer and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. [6] [7] The intermediate stanzas focus on the child, Christopher Robin, ostensibly praying but actually peeping through half-closed eyes and, with his short attention span, with his mind often turning to the events of the day. When he prays for the members of his family it is in terms of what he ought to say rather than his actual feelings of love. The lines of the poem have caesurae particularly when the child's mind turns from prayer to casual thoughts. [11] As printed in the book the child's recitations of prayer, and the first and last stanzas, are in italics. [7] Reception [ edit ]Nothing sings Spring like a Robin, and nothing pleases me more than a Robin-rich season. Whether celebrating a first sighting, laughing over their antics as they try to pull worms from half-frozen ground, or luxuriating in their melodious song at sunrise and sunset, there’s something about their comfortable presence that evokes a sense of home. Allen, Gay Wilson (1997). A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0488-4.

In the early 1920s Queen Mary's Dolls' House was being equipped with over 200 miniature volumes of British literature and Milne contributed a volume containing the poem. [16] Many nurseries went on to have a printed copy of the poem hanging up on the wall with the notice appended "Reprinted by permission from the Library of the Queen's Dolls". [3]

A robin flew around us, landing in our picnic table. She then proceeded to hop into our awning and through into our camper van.