1.What is the effect of the short lines that conclude each stanza in Whitman's poem? How do they contrast with the longer lines? 2.As an allegory representing the death of Abraham Lincoln, who does the Captain represent? What does the ship represent? What does the trip or voyage represent?

3.What motivated Frederick Douglass to become a hero?

4.What images in paragraph 2 does Douglass use to describe his first feelings of freedom and his fear of capture?

5.What did the “Liberator” write about? Why did it send “a thrill of joy” through Douglass's soul?

6.What kind of mental, emotional, and physical courage did Douglass convey in this excerpt from his autobiography?