row that he has brought upon himself through his own wickedness (Wagonknecht P.108-109). Longfellow was not done with the Indian’s they reappear in the Courtship of Miles Standish, only now they are not legendary prophets and singers, boosters and tricksters, but historical Wampunoag Indians, such as the settlers of Plymouth had encountered in all their solid actuality on the shores and in the woods of Massachusetts. The young woman he is in love with is an appreciably stronger character, as Elsie and Evangeline had been. It is true Alder compares Priscilla sentimentally to a Mayflowers, ‘ Modestand simple and sweet”. The Puritan color of the poem is kept up not only by the austuyre landscape and seascape, but by the constant and always natural recurrence. Longfellow’s resolution at a triangular romantic situation in the early days of little pilgrim colony of Plymouth is one of his most perfectly realized poems. (Arvin P.161-170). Longfellow wrote many great poems. The three stated here are probably the best ever wrote by this legendary poet. All three poems are well known and read to the day. That makes them great....
