Summary Of Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride

After reading both “Paul Revere’s Ride”, textbook evidence, and watching two videos about Paul Revere, I have concluded that he is not the man many think he is. Contrary to the famous poem, Paul Revere did not ride alone on his journey, and he did not reach Concord. However, his friend did stand on a church tower and signal him with lamps.

Paul Revere was famous for the warning of british troops on April 18, 1775. Sadly, this is just a poem. “Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a poem incorrectly depicting the events of the fateful night.We’ll look at the Belknap Letter, a letter written by Paul Revere himself depicting what happened that night. We’ll look at the similarities and differences to see how different these two tellings of the night are and how Paul Revere was not a unique hero of the battle of Lexington.

In “ paul revere’s ride ” poem and in the letter from paul revere there are similarities and differences. I will give you three differences and similarities. The three similarities are they both say paul revere’s midnight ride was on april 18th 1775 , they both tell about one by land or two by sea depending on where the british come from, and they both talked about how the british would attack. My differences are the letter gives more information than the poem , in the poem it told some details of the battle , and in the letter paul revere barely talked about his midnight ride. Now i will explain my similarities than differences.

There are similarities and differences between the “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” and the historical account of Paul Revere’s ride. In both texts Paul Revere went across the river to Lexington. However, they got across the river in different ways. Longfellow used history in his poem to make his poem more interesting, but he altered how he got across the river.

The use of imagery in the poem created the feel of a long, twisted path to find the storyteller. This is significant because it allows the reader to infer that going on such a trip was new and mysterious to Walcott. Lines 5-6 (“Sunset would threaten us as we climbed closer to her house up the asphalt hill road”) show that not only was it a long journey, but also dangerous seeing as there was not much light besides the “lamp at the black twist of the past”, which is known to belong the house of the old storyteller.

Another thing the two sonnets share is metaphorical language; it used to imply a comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common ground. Christina Rossetti establishes an idea of metaphorically remaining “alive” through remembrance. The juxtaposition in line 1, “Remember me” and “gone away” implies that the poet suggests that the memory is the last thing a person has that still ties them to life. Henry Longfellow utilizes metaphorical language when he compares a tangible object to emotions. He includes, “There is a mountain…/that…/displays a cross of snow upon its side. / Such is the cross I wear upon my breast” (lines 9-12). The image of a mountain that bears a cross shape filled with snow manifests an image of the angelic figure going towards heaven. Longfellow purposely used a mountain to further implicate religious ideas; the height of the mountain shows that is closer to heaven because it is going upward. The snow symbolizes the wife and that she is on the peak of the mountain, reaching towards heaven. He wears the pain of the loss of his wife on his chest because she is within his soul.

The two documents Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the letter from Paul Revere to DR. Jeremy Belknap that was written in 1798. The letter written for Jeremy Belknap is about “Paul Revere’s Ride” including other people had warned him about British and that was running from British but after he fled them woke up a captain and that told almost every house until he got to Lexington. While the poem Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is mainly about how he rode to Lexington warning people it does not include and details or facts about him running into many British soldiers or being warned by other people about British soldiers ahead.

At April 18th, 1775, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith lead About 700 british soldiers they gathered on Boston Common and boarded ships to Concord. These soldiers had eight companies of grenadiers, or soldiers who threw grenades at and eight companies of frontline gunners.

Many citizens living in America may have heard about the poem ‘Paul Revere’s ride’ on April 18, 1775. It was written by a famous American poet called Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, after 85 years of actual ‘Paul Revere’s ride’. ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ is one of the famous topics we can easily found while studying 1700’s time of American History. Among, the recorded documents about ‘Paul Revere’s ride’ there are two, the most famous documents, the one I just mentioned and ‘Paul Revere’s letter to Jeremy Belknap’. The poem ‘Paul Revere’s ride’ is also well- known documents about Paul Revere’s ride, but “Paul Revere’s letter to Jeremy Belknap” written by Paul Revere, himself 23 years after the actual ride is also significant source of ‘Paul Revere’s ride to be reckoned with. In contrast, the poem is also an reliable source , however it includes non precise sentence structure and contain so

Paul Revere, a man of bravery and content was a folk hero through the eyes of many. Paul was an ardent colonist and a silversmith. He had taken a part in the event of the Boston Tea Party, also the main rider for Boston’s Committee of Safety. He formulated a system of lanterns to alert the minutemen of British invasion. This was his setting up of the famous ride in 18th April, 1775, The Midnight Ride.

This group of “minority” not only can influence people, they also are good at bringing people together. One of the famous historical events “midnight ride” known as Paul Revere’s ride is an example of bringing people together. According to the fact that William Dawes, who was Paul’s friend was also spreading the about the news about British coming to Boston; however, only Paul gathered a group of villagers to fight against the British. This is because Paul Revere was “gregarious and intensely social” (pg.56), and he is also described as a “uncanny genius for being at the center of events” (pg.56). This shows that Paul had power to get people to unite. Similarly, people like Paul who are sociable can easily convince people to agree with them,

First of, “Paul Revere’s ride in 1860,during the turbulent times when the United States was on the brink of civil war.” Some of the people didn’t know how he was or anything like that he might have been a normal person. “How accurate was longfellow poem?” The author was Franklin Johnson, “Paul Revere and the American Revolution” by: Ethel Ames, and “Paul Revere’s Ride” written By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. What I have learned in the “Paul Revere and the American Revolution” was that on April 18, 1775, that Revere was sent to Lexington so he can warn the American leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British troops were on their way to arrest them and then seize weapons being stored in Concord. How it was accurate is by that

     There were a few interesting lines in the poem that were particularly well written. When the mother is denying her kid the right to march, she says “For I fear

The first stanza is addressed to ‘old men’ and how they should not simply slip away and die quietly, they should fight death until the end. Poetic techniques

Paul Revere had many stories told about him. He warned the townspeople that the British are coming so they can be ready to defend their country.Not all the stories that the author Longfellow were true. In the story that longfellow wrote Paul Revere was waiting for his friend to climb the church belltower,but according to history he was the one that lighted the two lanterns.According to Longfellow text Paul Revere rode his horse across the charles riverland alone on the other hand several people helped paul revere cross the charles river as he made his way across the river.In longfellow text paul revere was riding his horse around the country for the first time to tell the people that the british are coming in cotrast to history paul revere