Literary Analysis: Response To Paul Revere's Ride

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Literary Analysis: Response to Paul Revere’s Ride A courageous patriot galloping all through the night to warn the others that British troops were coming by sea. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem: Paul Revere’s Ride, although very intriguing, is a somewhat glorified. First of all, in Longfellow’s poem the lantern signal in the North Church Tower is used to communicate to Paul Revere which route the British troops were traveling (land or sea), but in the real event l event it was used to let the others know if Paul Revere got caught by the British. Another flaw is that Paul Revere wasn’t the only patriot riding April 18, 1775, there were two others spreading the word: William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. Conversely to the poem, Samuel Prescott