Murder at the Vanities
1934
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May 7, 2024 · “Barbara Frietchie” is a narrative poem written by John Greenleaf Whittier. It was published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 1863. The poem is about Barba...
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May 16, 2024 · During the Civil War, Barbara Frietchie defied the rebels under Stonewall Jackson when they marched into Frederick, Md., in September 1862. All the men in town took down the American flags, but Frietchie, a feminist at 95, put her flag up and waved it from her window. I’ll let Whittier tell the story: “Up the street came the rebel tread,
6 days ago · Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er, And the Rebel rides on his raids nor more. Honor to her! and let a tear Fall, for her sake, on Stonewalls' bier. Over Barbara Frietchie's grave, Flag of Freedom and Union, wave! Peace and order and beauty draw Round they symbol of light and law; And ever the stars above look down On thy stars below in Frederick ...
May 16, 2024 · During the Civil War, Barbara Frietchie defied the rebels under Stonewall Jackson when they marched into Frederick, Md., in September 1862. All the men in town took down the American flags, but Frietchie, a feminist at 95, put her flag up and waved it from her window. I’ll let Whittier tell the story:
May 14, 2024 · But I never heard the story of Barbara Frietchie shaking the Stars and Stripes in his face until I read Whittier's poem. I am sorry the story is a myth, for, as the poet tells it, the respect which the Confederates showed her was a great contrast with the treatment an order of a certain general required to be shown to a woman who by word, sign ...
May 10, 2024 · John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie" The speaker in John Greenleaf Whittier Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie" offers a tribute to the patriotism of an elderly woman. Whittier based his long, narrative poem on a legend that had been spreading before, during, and after the American Civil War; James Weldon Johnson’s "Noah Built the Ark"
4 days ago · Today Whittier’s words are nearly as dead as his friends. Few people read "Snow-Bound" or "Maud Muller" or "Barbara Frietchie" anymore, even in school. But at his death on September 7, 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier of Amesbury, Massachusetts, was a pop icon, as beloved as a modern rock star.
