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206:. The poem was meant to appeal to Northerners' sense of urgency and, as a call for action, noted that history favors the courageous. Longfellow, who often used poetry to remind readers of cultural and moral values, warns at the end of the poem of a coming "hour of darkness and peril and need", implying the breakup of the Union, and suggests that the "people will waken and listen to hear" the midnight message again. By emphasizing common history, he was attempting to dissolve social tensions. 320: 126: 262: 34: 1011: 277:
Revere: the historical Paul Revere did not receive the lantern signal, but actually was the one who ordered it to be set up. The poem also depicts Revere rowing himself across the Charles River when, in reality, he was rowed over by others. He also did not reach Concord that night. Another inaccuracy
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of the 1870s. In 1875, for example, the Old North Church mentioned in the poem began an annual custom called the "lantern ceremony" recreating the action of the poem. Three years later, the Church added a plaque noting it as the site of "the signal lanterns of Paul Revere". Revere's elevated
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on the road to Concord. Prescott and Dawes escaped, but Revere was detained and questioned and then escorted by three British officers back to Lexington. Of the three riders, only Prescott arrived at Concord in time to warn the militia there.
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The majority of criticism, however, notes that Longfellow gave sole credit to Revere for the collective achievements of three riders (as well as other riders, whose names do not survive to history). In fact, Revere and
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Longfellow was inspired to write the poem after visiting the Old North Church and climbing its tower on April 5, 1860. He began writing the poem the next day. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of
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The poem fluctuates between past and present tense, sometimes in the same sentence, symbolically pulling the actions of the Revolution into modern times and displaying an event with timeless sympathies.
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Modern critics of the poem emphasize not the poem's overall quality of writing, but its many historical inaccuracies. For example, the poem depicts the lantern signal in the Old North Church as meant
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were marching from Boston to Lexington to arrest them and seize Patriot weapons stores in Concord. Revere and Dawes rode toward Concord, where the militia's arsenal was hidden; they were joined by
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Longfellow's poem is not historically accurate but his "mistakes" were deliberate. He had researched the historical event, using works like
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The phrase "Hardly a man is now alive" was true as one of the last men alive at the time of the historical event had only recently died.
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forces will come by land or sea. He would await the signal across the river in Charlestown and be ready to spread the alarm throughout
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as "The Landlord's Tale" in 1863. The poem served as the first in a series of 22 narratives bundled as a collection, similar to
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and tells a partly fictionalized story of Paul Revere. In the poem, Revere tells a friend to prepare signal lanterns in the
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on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of
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In 1896 Helen F. Moore, dismayed that William Dawes had been forgotten, penned a parody of Longfellow's poem:
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Longfellow's poem is credited with creating the national legend of Paul Revere, a previously little-known
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historical importance also led to unsubstantiated rumors that he made a set of false teeth for
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Longfellow's family had a connection to the historical Paul Revere. His maternal grandfather,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1860, the year he wrote "Paul Revere's Ride", painted by
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Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865–1917
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Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865–1917
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magazine on December 20, 1860, just as South Carolina became the first state to
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The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835–64
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over the issue of slavery. Longfellow first came forward publicly as an
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The Real History of the American Revolution: A New Look at the Past
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From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
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is a general lengthening of the time frame of the night's events.
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848
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When the poem was written in 1860, America was on the verge of
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For 1931 painting by the American artist Grant Wood, see
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For the historical event on which the poem is based, see
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Works originally published in The Atlantic (magazine)
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Index

Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting)

poem
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
the actions
Paul Revere
The Atlantic Monthly
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Wayside Inn
Old North Church
British
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Medford
Lexington
Concord

Thomas Buchanan Read
The Atlantic Monthly
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Peleg Wadsworth
Penobscot Expedition
Civil War
abolitionist
Poems on Slavery
Charles Sumner
The Atlantic
secede from the United States

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