When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

E69055

elegy poem

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.

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Label	Occurrences
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d canonical	12
Sequel to Drum-Taps	1
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549511 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Context triple: [Leaves of Grass, notablePoem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d]

A. The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 American drama film set in India that is renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
B. Green Grow the Lilacs
Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 stage play by Lynn Riggs, a folk drama set in Indian Territory that later served as the basis for the musical Oklahoma!.
C. After the Dance
"After the Dance" is a 1939 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores the disillusionment and emotional fallout among the hedonistic "bright young things" of interwar London.
D. Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
E. The Bells
"The Bells" is a lyrical poem by Edgar Allan Poe that uses musical repetition and onomatopoeia to evoke the changing moods and stages of life through the sounds of different bells.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Target entity description: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.

A. The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 American drama film set in India that is renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
B. Green Grow the Lilacs
Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 stage play by Lynn Riggs, a folk drama set in Indian Territory that later served as the basis for the musical Oklahoma!.
C. After the Dance
"After the Dance" is a 1939 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores the disillusionment and emotional fallout among the hedonistic "bright young things" of interwar London.
D. Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
E. The Bells
"The Bells" is a lyrical poem by Edgar Allan Poe that uses musical repetition and onomatopoeia to evoke the changing moods and stages of life through the sounds of different bells.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	elegy ⓘ poem ⓘ
addressee	Abraham Lincoln ⓘ
author	Walt Whitman ⓘ
collection	Sequel to Drum-Taps ⓘ linked to: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
firstPublicationYear	1865 ⓘ 1866 ⓘ
form	free verse ⓘ
genre	elegy ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ
hasTone	contemplative ⓘ mournful ⓘ
historicalContext	end of the American Civil War ⓘ
influenced	American elegiac tradition ⓘ
influencedBy	American Civil War ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryPeriod	19th century American literature ⓘ
mainSubject	American Civil War ⓘ assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ death ⓘ grief ⓘ mourning ⓘ national loss ⓘ nature ⓘ
meter	free verse ⓘ
movement	American Romanticism ⓘ Transcendentalism ⓘ
notableFor	innovative free verse form ⓘ lyrical meditation on grief ⓘ public elegy for a national leader ⓘ use of nature imagery ⓘ
partOf	Leaves of Grass ⓘ
setting	American landscape ⓘ rural dooryard ⓘ
symbol	coffin ⓘ lilac ⓘ spring ⓘ thrush ⓘ western star ⓘ
theme	memory ⓘ national trauma ⓘ public and private mourning ⓘ reconciliation with death ⓘ relationship between nature and death ⓘ
writtenBy	Walt Whitman ⓘ
writtenInResponseTo	assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ

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Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Leaves of Grass → notablePoem → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Walt Whitman → wrote → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ⓘ

linked to: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking → relatedWorkByAuthor → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d → collection → Sequel to Drum-Taps ⓘ

linked to: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Drum-Taps → hasPart → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Cavalry Crossing a Ford → relatedWorkByAuthor → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame → relatedWork → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim → relatedWorkByAuthor → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Adieu to a Soldier → relatedWork → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Reconciliation → relatedWork → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Dooryard Bloom → textSource → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Roger Sessions → notableWork → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Lilacs → basedOn → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

Lilacs → usesPoem → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ

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Referenced by (14)

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