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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Conover, W. F.
Conover, W. F.
Conover, W. F.

Paperback

Series: With Introduction, Notes and a Plan of Study

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1718662750
ISBN13: 9781718662759
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: May 2 2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Evangeline is considered Longfellow's masterpiece among his longer poems. It is said to have been the author's favorite. It has a universal popularity, having been translated into many languages. E.C. Stedman styles it the Flower of American Idyls. Evangeline is a Narrative poem, since it tells a story. Some of the world's greatest poems have been of this kind, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, and the Aeneid, of Virgil. It may be also classified as an Idyl, which is a simple, pastoral poem of no great length. Poetry has been defined as impassioned expression in verse or metrical form. All modern English poetry has metre, and much of it rhyme. By metre is meant a regular recurrence of accented syllables among unaccented syllables. Evangeline is written in what is called hexameter, having six accents to the line. An accented syllable is followed by one or two unaccented. A line must begin with an accented syllable, the last accent but one be followed by two unaccented syllables, and the last by one. Representing an accented syllable by O and an unaccented syllable by a -, the first line of the poem would be as follows: O - - O - - O - - O - - O - - O - This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks,

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