RED Warm lips are red, blood drops are too, Abe Lincoln was shot, the nation was blue. In the poem" O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, the color red is used as a symbol for many objects. Red symbolizes blood shed, life, happiness and it also associates with love, life, and vitality. Other things that can relate to red are compassion, hatred, and pain. These elements are what gives the poem its voice and …showed first 75 words of 547 total…

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