Paul Revere's Ride, Is It Credible Or Nah?

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“Paul Revere’s Ride”, Is It Credible or Nah?

A wise man once said, “we should put seat belts on our desks, because education is a wild ride.” This can be found out by taking an english class in high school. Paul Revere has a poem written about him that is very confusing when compared to the real life events. The poem, “ Paul Revere’s Ride”, is not a credible source of information when evaluating real life events. The main reasons it is not are there are events added to the poem, there is information left out of the poem, and he was portrayed differently.
When a source of information adds details of the event it is telling, it kills any chance of being a credible source of information. It was said Paul Revere had went “to every Middlesex village and farm.”(poem) This was very inaccurate for the fact that he did not actually go to the number of places as the poem portrayed. Leaving things out of a source of …show more content…

The poem does not mention anything about Paul Revere being rowed across the Charles River, but in Paul Revere’s letter he states that “two friends rowed me across Charles River.” If Paul Revere was transported by boat that is a huge piece of information. He is often portrayed on horseback the whole time, so that should not have been left out.
The poem makes him out to be a hero, while the letter makes him seem more of a man being taking orders. While he is a hero, the poem makes him out to be a self ordering figure. The poem says, “so through the night Paul Revere rode” and “a cry of defiance and not of fear.” The way they write it makes him seem like he single handedly alerted everyone of the British.
Of course one could make the argument that it is a poem so it has to be a bit exaggerated. If that is the case though, it should not even be considered a credible source of information. A source of information should have all the details you need to possibly know. The poem just does not work as

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