The Midnight Ride Of Paul Reveree Summary

“Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,” this is in the poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” The poem “Midnight ride of Paul Revere” was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow wanted to write a story about a hero with a historical background. The website HW Longfellow states, “Longfellow's intention was not to write a history; it was to create a national hero and he was successful at doing so.” This means that the poem, Longfellow wrote is not historically accurate because he wanted to make it like a story instead of a historical poem. Therefore, the poem “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” isn’t a valid source, and is not what actually happened that night, but is what an author wanted it to be. In contrast, some people may

This is proven if the poem by Longfellow is put up against the letters written by Paul Revere. The poem states, “So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm, To every Middlesex village and farm…” and Paul Revere says, ““—the Docter jumped his Horse over low Stone wall, and got to Concord.” This shows how in the letters Paul Revere gave credit to the real person who made it to Concord. This also proves how the author of the poem made it look like Paul Revere was the one and only hero. Therefore, the poem “Midnight ride of Paul Revere” is not a valid source of information because it doesn’t supply the right times of the night, it says Paul Revere made it to Concord, and the poem doesn’t say who the real heroes are. This information is true because the whole reason the author wrote the poem was to create a hero in a historical story. This means that he took the history and twisted it to make Paul Revere look like he did all of the work, and the author made it seem like there was little to no problems along the way. This matters because there are a lot