What Is The Mood Of The Poem 'Concord Hymn'?

On April 19, 1775 the Revolution finally began on the footsteps of Concord. After days of rumors British forces finally moved into the small town. Unlike most expected the minutemen held their own and protected the town of Concord along with militia from neighboring towns. When the fighting in town died down and everything was calm in Concord WIlliam Emerson claimed “This month [is] remarkable for the greatest Event taking Place in the present Age(132).” This attitude

On 19 April 1775, the battle begun. The colony protected by local militiamen was vastly outnumbered, armed with only 77 men including “minutemen,” named for their ability to be ready to fight in a minute’s notice were

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, “Concord Hymn” supports that the first shot was fired at the North bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The first stanza of the Concord Hymn is, “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.” Although, Emerson suggest that it was in Concord where the “shot heard around the world” was fired, desendents of the towns Lexington and Concord still debate this fact today. On Wednesday, April 19, 1775 at the village green in the village of Lexington in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Captain John Parker and around 60 militia men, many of the men being related to Parker faced off against 240 redcoats under General Gage’s comand. John Parker was a farmer and had previously fought along side the british. The militia men were not near as well trained or well equipt as the british regulars. There were over one hundred onlookers at the battle of Lexington. Both John Parker’s milita men and Gage’s redcoats were under orders to hold their fire. Nobody is exactly sure who fired the first shot at Lexington, some people believe that it could have been a spectator. Regardless of who fired the first shot.

This very well-known poem ‘Sanctuary’ was written in the early ‘50s by Judith Wright. Judith was a prolific Australian poet, critic, and short-story writer. She was also an uncompromising environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. She believed that the poet should be concerned with national and social problems. The poem ‘Sanctuary’ was written as a great expression of environmental concern from her. The poem begins with a shocker. Sanctuary, implicitly, is a place of habitation which is safe. However, the first lines of the first stanza, “The road beneath the giant original trees sweeps on and cannot wait” represents a contrast. Here the road is used metaphorically to symbolise today’s modern developments taking place at the cost of all round natural destruction. The poem then unfolds the gloomy mood of the poet in the description of dangerous driving in the night on the road through the Sanctuary to the city: “only the road ahead is true.” In the last line then she is simply sarcastic: “It knows where it is going: we go too.” In fact the road never knows where it is going, but we know where we are going! The poet subtly asks: do we know where we are going by destroying our own habitation, native forests, plants and animals?

In the poem, “Backwards,” by Warsan Shire the poem dramatizes the conflict between the long for the past and the hatred of the present. This poem highlights the rough situation that the speaker is in as well as a need for what life was like before. One can easily see that the speaker in this poem is a child in the family, because of the context of line 3, “that’s how we bring Dad back.” This is referring to the longing for their dad before they were in the situation they currently are in. Although, there is not line to line rhyme scheme the poem is written backwards at the beginning of the second stanza. This is likely showing the reader the need for the past and emphasizing the importance of the current situation. The overall theme of this poem is showing what life was once like and what it is now.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred on 19 April 1775 between the British Regulars and the Patriot Militia, also known today as Americans, in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. “The Battles of Lexington and Concord is often referred to as the “Shot Heard Around the World” and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War” (Fischer, 1994). The Battles of Lexington and Concord consisted of in four events: the skirmish in Lexington between the British Regulars and the Lexington Training Band, the search and seizure of arms, munitions and military stores in Concord, the battles between the Regulars and the militias during the march of the Regulars back to Boston and the surrounding of Boston by the

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were neccessary to the American Revolutionary War because they put in motion the events that made our nation free. Numerous individuals have thought about how the American Revolutionary War began. Without a doubt, they have heard the stories of Paul Revere and the Midnight Ride: there was even a ballad expounded on his ride, however Paul Revere didn't begin the war.

Governor Gage sent troops to Concord to recover weapons from the colonists. Patriots found out this secret plan. Paul Revere, Robert Newman, William Dawes alert the minutemen.

There was a battle at Lexington,Concord during April, 19 1775. It was a battle was between the minutemen/militia against the British redcoats. The minutemen were there in efforts to stop the redcoats to reaching Concord. The British was supposed to cross Lexington,Concord to get to Concord but was delayed by the minutemen. However, before all of this began , Paul Revere came to warn the militia but was arrested along with Mr. Dawes. So Prescot, another member of the Son of Adams, delivered the message to the minutemen about the British coming. In the end, the militia lost ,BUT it doesn’t end there. As soon as the British were coming back from Concord, The minutemen, that survived the battle, ambushed the redcoats in the forest killing

The different view of poem and letter rendered its validity, as you can see in this quote “Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere”. In this poem, when you see the part “Listen, my children”, you can notice that the actual speaker is twinkly-eyed, and sharp- minded grandfather. Furthermore, the tone in this poem drops to a whisper, but sometimes rise to a shout, having full of excitement every time, which may drop integrity by decreasing concentration of the readers. Similarly, it’s hard to suppose that all the facts in the poem are came from precise knowledge. In this quote “It was two by the village clock, when he came to the bridge in Concord town”, Longfellow records Revere as riding both Lexington and Concord, when in fact Revere was captured outside of Lexington and never reached Concord although his companion Dr. Prescott did. An unproved or false collective beliefs are being used to justify Paul Revere’s

Lowell’s poem also seems to radiate a blissful moment and lesson in a time of darkness. That yes, they are experiencing a war but it doesn’t mean that there are no more serene moments. For example, how Lowell describes the day, in the poem, as peaceful and the people in the

It was April 19, 1775 my daughters just woke me up because the said that they heard “gunshots” But I didn’t believe hem I just said “Go back to sleep it’s sunrise!” but right when I said that I heard gunshots too. I quickly woke up my husband (he’s a deep sleeper) when he finally woke up, he looked outside our window, he saw the redcoats and the militiamen he said “I must go and fight with my fellow colonists” he said waving goodbye. I ran as fast as I could have but he had already walked out wit his gun I was scared to walk out and chase him. I thought “If I walk out there a redcoat might see ma and shot me” so I stayed inside thinking of the good things that might come out of this “Winning the battle, claiming our freedom from Britain”

The poem, “Concord Hymn”, by Ralph Waldo Emerson uses the setting to relate itself to a historical moment. The historical moment he is referring to is the American Revolution, or more specifically, the Battle of Lexington and Concord. This battle took place in 1775 and sparked the start of the American Revolution. The purpose of “Concord Hymn” was for it to be sung at the Obelisk, a monument that was meant to commemorate the Battle at Lexington and Concord. Because of this, it is fitting that Emerson wrote the poem with the setting of the Battle in mind.

Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City There are many literary devices at work in Thomas James Merton’s poem “Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City” that contribute to the idea that external appearances may not always reflect internal experiences. Merton uses analogies to prisons and hospitals in addition to a number of references to cocaine and suicide in order to lead the reader in understanding that New York City may look extravagant on the outside while the residents inside are suffering. Thomas James Merton was a Trappist, which was a brotherhood of the Roman Catholic Church known for its extremely quiet atmosphere.

The most ironic factor in Holmes’s statement is that oftentimes, authority figures are the true causes of disaster and chaos for society, as pointed out by Sassoon in his poem “The General”. The commanding general does what he thinks is best for a great cause for the service toward his country, while simultaneously disregarding the lives of his soldiers who are sent on suicide missions to accomplish militaristic goals. This connects to Holmes’s point about the act of protecting the interests of the state by eliminating those who obstruct this goal, and his case, mentally-illed or less qualified racial groups. What is good and bad are perceived differently by authority and people, simply because authorities do not engage themselves with the