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4th of July Special: "The Building of the Ship" by Longfellow
The Troubadour Podcast
English - July 04, 2019 22:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBBooks Arts Health & Fitness poetry literature literature and life historical stories wisdom of the ages Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Here is a special fourth of July poem. Longfellow, writing during the build-up to the civil war, is encouraging the north to remember that the ship of state is not fully built. It is up to the next generation to fully institute the vision of the founders: This means ending slavery.
This is a poem that is primarily analogistic. It is a supremely patriotic and American poem.
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