Evangeline Analysis

"Evangeline"'s meter is epic, gang. No, we don't mean epic as in "That air guitar solo was epic, dude." We mean the other kind of epic, the literary kind of epic.Now, to qualify for epic statu...

While our speaker never tells us much about himself directly (in fact we're just guessing he's a he, since we have no evidence to the contrary), we learn a lot about him from the way he puts the st...

It's fair to say that—on a very basic level—"Evangeline" is a poem that's all about setting. Think about it: we start off in the beautiful, idyllic setting of Acadia:IN the Acadian land, on the...

When you're dealing with a poem this long, you're bound to encounter some sound effects somewhere, right? Why, yes—yes you will. So pop in your poetry ear buds and join us for the audio tour of "...

Our full title is "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie." Of those five words, two of them are pretty important. We'll let you wrestle with "A," "Tale" (story), and "of" on your own. For now, let's discuss...

Longfellow didn't write exclusively about American history, but some of his most famous poems deal with important events in the country's past. Check out "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Song of Hiawa...

The biggest challenge of this poem is its sheer length. We have to admit, getting 1400 lines dropped in your lap may seem like a huge mountain to climb. But, once you get going, there's no tricky s...

Longfellow was educated at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. One of his classmates there was—wait for it—none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne.(Source.)Henry W. knew a thing or two about that...

This poem is all wedding feast, no wedding night. Evangeline and Gabriel's love is never consummated (as far as we can tell)—that's sort of the tragedy of it all.

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