eaning in the senseless “falling” of the great “star”, and this search for meaning is continued in stanza five. Within this stanza the speaker uses nature’s imagery to contrast with the journeying of Lincoln’s coffin “night and day.” In a way, the speaker suggests that even nature stands proud and salutes this fallen star, “every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen” (Whitman 266). The speaker is also suggesting that for all the “spring” inherent in nature and life, the sum of all our nights and days ends in a coffin ride, “Night and day journey’s a coffin” (Whitman 266). In stanza six the speaker continues the chronicling of the coffin’s journey and all the attendance pomp and circumstance that accompany the coffin and slain leader, “With the pomp of the inloop’d flags…with processions long and winding…with the countless torche
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