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Analysis Of The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere

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“ Listen, my children, and you will hear Of the midnight ride of Paul revere…”. The poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Longfellow explains the ride of the famous man Paul Revere and making his way to concord and how he “saved the nation.” but he didn’t. So the poem is not trustworthy because It didn’t talk about others riding with him, it didn’t talk about samuel adams and john hancock. And it didn’t tell that he was captured. Some people might say that some of it is true like he did saddle up to ride to concord. However, People didn’t know that he didn’t even make it to concord. As would be told in paragraph 5. “In an instant I was surrounded by four;-they had placed themselves in a Straight Road, that inclined each way… we tryed to git past them; but they being armed with pistols & swords, the forced us in to the pasture.” …show more content…

In his own letter to someone he said, “Mr. Daws came; we refreshid our selves, and set off for Concord, to secure the Stores, &c. there.We were overtaken by a young Doctor Prescot” this shows that he didn’t just do it alone he did it with two other people. Second, it Didn’t talk about samuel adams and John hancock the people he was trying to warn so they wouldn’t get captured by the british. In the Letter it said, “I found Messrs. Hancock & Adams at the Rev. Mr.Clark’s…” that means that the poem was wrong and it gave not enough information to make the poem a trustworthy

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