Why is this poem a narrative poem?

Why did Paul Revere make the ride?

Read stanza 3 and identify the figurative language that Henery Wadsworth Longfellow used.

Where swinging wide at her moorings lay

The Somerset, British man-of-war;

A phantom ship, with each mast and spar

Across the moon like a prison bar,

And a huge black hulk, that was magnified

By its own reflection in the tide.

"Where swinging wide at her moorings lay

The Somerset, British man-of-war;

A phantom ship, with each mast and spar

Across the moon like a prison bar"

These lines suggest that the British warship looks like

Read stanza four of, "Paul Revere's Ride." What are the different types of figurative language Longfellow uses in this stanza?

^{Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street}

^{Wanders and watches, with eager ears,}

^{Till in the silence around him he hears}

^{The muster of men at the barrack door,}

^{The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,}

^{And the measured tread of the grenadiers,}

^{Marching down to their boats on the shor}

"Till in the silence around him he hears

The muster of men at the barrack door,

The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,

And the measured tread of the grenadiers,

Marching down to their boats on the shore."

What image do these lines create?

Read stanza 6 of "Paul Revere's Ride." How does Longfellow use personfication?

^{Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,}

^{In their night encampment on the hill,}

^{Wrapped in silence so deep and still}

^{That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,}

^{The watchful night-wind, as it went}

^{Creeping along from tent to tent,}

^{And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"}

^{A moment only he feels the spell}

^{Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread}

^{Of the lonely belfry and the dead;}

^{For suddenly all his thoughts are bent}

^{On a shadowy something far away,}

^{Where the river widens to meet the bay,--}

^{A line of black that bends and floats}

^{On the rising tide like a bridge of boats}

Look at stanza 8 of the poem. Longfellow uses a metaphor to convey that Paul Revere's ride started the American Revolution. Which set of lines signifies this?

_{A hurry of hoofs in a village street,}

_{A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,}

_{And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark}

_{Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;}

_{That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,}

_{The fate of a nation was riding that night;}

_{And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,}

_{Kindled the land into flame with its heat.}

Read stanza 11:

_{It was one by the village clock,}

_{When he galloped into Lexington.}

_{He saw the gilded weathercock}

_{Swim in the moonlight as he passed,}

_{And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,}

_{Gaze at him with a spectral glare,}

_{As if they already stood aghast}

_{At the bloody work they would look upon.}

What is swimming in the moonlight? And what type of figurative language is being used?

What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza?

_{He has left the village and mounted the steep,}

_{And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,}

_{Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;}

_{And under the alders that skirt its edge,}

_{Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,}

_{Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.}

What is the author's attitude toward Paul Revere?

What is the theme of the poem?

What event do these lines describe?

"You know the rest. In the books you have read

How the British Regulars fired and fled,-

How the farmers gave them ball for ball,

From behind each fence and farmyard wall,

Chasing the redcoats down the lane,

Then crossing the fields to emerge again"

Grave or even gloomy in character

A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

characterized by undue haste and lack of thought

struck with fear, dread, or consternation

a place where a craft can be made fast