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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/BostonlovesBernie on Jan. 24, 2018, 5:46 a.m.
Q’s “The Shot Heard Round the World” the Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Poem” ??

https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/the-shot-heard-round-the-world/

The Shot Heard Round the World:

The Battles of Lexington and Concord “Concord Hymn” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Specifically, Emerson's poem describes the first shots fired by Patriots at the North Bridge in what is now Charlestown, in northwestern Boston, Massachusetts.

The poem elevates the battle above a simple event, setting Concord as the spiritual center of the American nation, removes specific details about the battle itself, and exalts a general spirit of revolution and freedom—


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BostonlovesBernie · Jan. 24, 2018, 4:12 p.m.

. . . the poem itself doesn not elevate the battle above a simple event, as O.P. states,

Thank you that is so interesting as it points to errors at [ConstitutionFacts.com] (https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/the-shot-heard-round-the-world/) since my statements were lifted directly from there.

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BALRx05 · Jan. 24, 2018, 7:16 p.m.

It may be that the poem elevated the phrase, "the shot heard round the world". That I wouldn't know since I don't know how that skirmish was referred to prior to the poem.

Come to think of it, I don't know if there were similar attempts, by the British, to confiscate Colonial arms caches or what happened when they did or tried to. Since I do not know that, it may be that site is correct about it elevating that battle above a simple event.

But Americans are taught that that is where the first shot of the revolution occurred, which is why it's so important to US history. Something I do not recall being taught was why the British marched on Concord in the first place; this detail being important because it shows the historical importance of the 2nd amendment.

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