THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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“swinging wide”
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“Across the moon”
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“huge black hulk”
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its own reflection”
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Annabel Lee” is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe’s poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious.
Detailed explanation-2: -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, And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Detailed explanation-3: -In lines 42-48, what two things is Longfellow comparing? Why is he making that comparison? He is comparing the graveyard to a military encampment. He starts by saying “in the churchyard, lay the dead” and then goes on to say “like the sentinel’s tread…
Detailed explanation-4: -’Paul Revere’s Ride’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a ten-stanza poem that is separated into uneven stanzas or lines. The shortest stanza is five lines and the longest is twenty-seven lines long. In regards to meter, Longfellow uses iambs and anapaests.