c. The point of view that of an old man’s retrospect. How far is this appreciable by children?
d. The study of this poem involves also attention to structure, diction, allusions, poetic descriptions, and metrical form.
e. Typical passages treated in lessons.
8. Longfellow’s “Evangeline.”
a. The poet’s departure from historical fact; its justification.
b. The idyllic element; the descriptions.
c. The central theme, and its treatment in the first and second parts of the poem.
d. The different quality of the two parts; predominance of description and the meditative element in the second.
e. Metrical structure.
f. What things in the poem can be made especially interesting to young people?