What Is The Mood Of The Longfellows Poem

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The Longfellows poem follows the story of Paul Revere Midnight Ride. The Longfellows Poem is told by the perspective view of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who uses quite a variegated vocabulary. Henry uses very complex words such as belfrey, impetuous, or kindled. By this you can infer that that Henry had a very professional mind-set. Although the vocabulary is very complex it pulls the entire story together and basically shows you a mental picture of what the setting, characters, or props looked like given the details. The Longfellow poem wasn’t like the other Paul Revere stories I had heard before I had never heard anything about “hanging a lantern in the belfry arch”and, I remember knowing that Paul Revere rode back into the village after

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