THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sightA second lamp in the belfry burns!
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The watchful night-wind, as it wentCreeping along from tent to tent, And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
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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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And one was safe and asleep in his bedWho at the bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball.
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Detailed explanation-1: -By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lines 52-56 On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. The sight of the British ships pulls the narrator back into the moment and the mission. The army is crossing the river on its way to the other side.
Detailed explanation-3: -Synopsis. Paul Revere’s Ride tells the story of Paul Revere and his historic ride to warn the town that the British soldiers were coming. It details Revere making the plan with the other soldier and continues through his ride and the resulting interaction between the British and American soldiers.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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.