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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Evangeline:

The poem is divided into two major sections, each containing five
subdivisions. Preceding the poem is an introduction which paints vivid scenes
of desolation, describing the remains of an old Acadian (Nova Scotian) town,
once occupied by French settlers living under the English crown. Part the
First. The first section introduces the main characters, going back to the
time when the town flourished, untroubled by fear or tyranny. Benedict
Bellefontaine is the richest farmer in town, the seventy-year-old father of
Evangeline, the ...

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