The Song of Hiawatha Longfellow Henry W.
The Song of Hiawatha Longfellow Henry W. The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Inspired by stories from Ojibwe oral tradition, for which he consulted Ojibwe chief…
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The Song of Hiawatha Longfellow Henry W.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Inspired by stories from Ojibwe oral tradition, for which he consulted Ojibwe chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh and other indigenous sources, Longfellow composed his American epic, a story of romance and perseverance steeped in legend and beloved by generations to come.Along the shores of Lake Superior, an Ojibwe leader prophesies the arrival of Hiawatha, a great and noble hero. A master of poetic tradition and form, Longfellow wrote The Song of Hiawatha in trochaic tetrameter, the meter of such classical epics as the Finnish Kalevala.
His sons grow to be wild, fearless warriors, defending their land and feuding endlessly with one another. Before he can be born, however, Mudjekeewis must father the Four Winds by killing the Great Bear. Although Nokomis, a woman who fell from the moon, warns
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