What Does Paul Revere's Ride Mean

Paul Revere’s Ride

My aunt always use to tell me, “Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy”. Paul Revere’s Ride was published in 1860 by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Paul Revere’s Ride is maybe not a hundred percent truth, but that does not mean people will not enjoy reading it, rather than Revere’s letter. Three reasons to why Longfellow’s poem is inaccurate are that the letter was written by Paul Revere himself, there is very slim relativity between the poem and letter, and another reason for the difference between the poem and letter is the history of them two.

Knowing that Revere himself wrote a letter saying what happened that day in extremely great detail showing how the poem is inaccurate, as everyone had

thought. In the poem it is read to you like a story, and just like everyone knows the longer stories are told, the more they begin to change. Paul Revere was obviously there when everything happened, and unfortunately Longfellow, the writer of the poem, was not
There is also very slim relativity between Reveres letter, and Longfellow's poem.

In the poem Revere is impatiently waiting on his horse, waiting to take of when the signal is given, while realistically Revere said in his letter that he was waiting around -not impatiently- and took off on a boat, rather than by a horse. Reveres letter is one of the main reasons to why no one believes the facts on Longfellow’s poem anymore.

The last and final reason to why Longfellow’s poem, and Revere’s letter are different in history. Paul Revere’s Ride is a poem written by the poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, it was published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Longfellow was inspired to write Paul Revere’s Ride after visiting the Old North Church and climbing its tower on April 5, 1860. Paul Revere’s letter was written to Jeremy Belknap, who was the secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which Paul Revere summarizes the activities on the 18-19 of April, 1775.

It possibly could go the way that Longfellow’s poem was the correct story, rather than the letter. In Revere’s letter he could have possibly have lied about the way the day actually went because he may have not wanted the world to know exactly went down that day. Obviously people would have believed that story told by the person who was there, other than a guy who just wrote a poem about the story he was told throughout his

life.
In conclusion the poem that was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow does not contain as much credible information as the letter written by Paul Revere does. Paul Revere’s Ride may not be a hundred percent truth, but that does not mean that people will not enjoy reading, rather than Revere’s letter. The three reasons to why Longfellow’s poem is not as credible of information as Reveres poem is that the letter was written by Paul Revere himself, there is also very slim relativity between the poem and letter, and the other reason for the difference between the letter and poem is the change in history.