EVANGELINE: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Part 6
"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks."
This first line of Longfellow's poem has rung down across time, as his poem was meant to do. He wrote it in blank dactylic hexameter, reminiscent of Homer and Latin heroic verse. It was his most famous poem during his lifetime.
The first three stanzas of the poem ("the Prelude") tell the story in precis. The French-speaking settlers of what today is Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and part of Maine, known as Acadia, were forcibly expelled from their land by the British, deported and exiled during the French and Indian wars. The…
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