@Romiesays
Romie herself
@Romiesays · 4:44

Paul Revere's Ride

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Half a league, half a league, half the league onward into the valley of death row the 600. But also because now this poem is so famous that of course everybody knows about Paul Revere's ride. It at least in the US. And now mostly when you hear people talking about the poem, it's complaining about how like, oh, it blew the history. And it totally minimized that. There were three writers and he was just one of them and he didn't even go the furthest

#poem #patriotsday #boston #nationalpoetrymonth #history #longfellow

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@Romiesays
Romie herself
@Romiesays · 4:50

a recitation of the full poem

Then he said goodnight and with muffledor silently rode to the Charlestown shore just as the moon rose over the bay 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
@fas
faith s
@fas · 1:05

#maven #tippingpoint

And he describe Paul Revere's ride as just an extreme example of that personality type, but also how crucial it was in that particular Tipping point in America. I think I've just sucked the beauty out of the poem. I really apologize for that. But it was really lovely and I'll listen to it again
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@Romiesays
Romie herself
@Romiesays · 4:49

@fas

And then I'm also thinking as I read the poem specifically I mean, I'm talking really fast in that reading, which is very Massachusetts, but also I'm using pronunciations that are local, right? Like, you say conquered instead of Concord, which sounds a lot like conquered, like you were defeated. And Charlestown, I have to really fight myself to not say Charleston, but it's Charlestown. I did put all of the R's in Medford
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