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The Tide Rises: The Death Of Lincoln By William Cullen Bryant
The poem “The Death of Lincoln” written by William Cullen Bryant stands out heavily

because of the back story. The poem revolves around the death of a president that almost everyone

learned about in school as the one who helped free the slaves. Also the poem itself is filled with

emotion about the death of Lincoln were as the other poems were more about nature and the world

around us. Also the when the poem was written the death of Lincoln was sit fresh in the memory's

of the American people. “The Tide Rises- The Tide Falls” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

was different than most of the other poems for starters it was one of the shortest. Along with the

detail the poem describes the tide in, he also repeated the same line over and over again. At the start …show more content…
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in the outline compared to the other poems defiantly caught my eye.

The poem titled “The Death of Lincoln” deals with the death of a beloved president. The
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