National mythologies are made up of stories and literary works that advance a nation's values and ideals, celebrate its heroes,
and commemorate its defining events. How does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" do each of these things? Cite specific examples from the poem in your response.
<span>"Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year."</span>
