THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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“For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, through all our history, to the last, in the hour of darkness and peril and need, the people will waken and listen to hear the hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, an the midnight message of Paul Revere.”
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“So through the night rode Paul Revere; and so through the night went his cry of alarm to every Middlesex village and farm, a cry of defiance and not of fear, a voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, and a word that shall echo forevermore!”
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Longfellow’s famous poem recounts the silversmith’s long ride through Middlesex County to warn the revolutionaries that the British were on their way-thus allowing the Americans to muster their forces and drive back the British the following morning.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Paul Revere’s Ride” is less a poem about the Revolutionary War than about the impending Civil War-and about the conflict over slavery that caused it. That meaning, though, has been almost entirely forgotten. Longfellow, a passionately private man, was, just as passionately and privately, an abolitionist.
Detailed explanation-3: -And the midnight message of Paul Revere. The whole point of this is that the midnight message is filled with something like the American spirit. It’s a call to strength, unity, and bravery in the face of fear. Keep in mind that Longfellow wrote this right before the Civil War – another dark time for the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Paul Revere’s Ride” is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.