The Song of Hiawatha
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cover: The Departure of Hiawatha (1868), oil on panel by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1902)
Longfellow's long poem tells the life of Hiawatha, the Ojibwe hero, from his boyhood among the animals through his fasting, his fishing and the wedding feast to the coming of the white man, and does so in unrhymed trochees borrowed from the Kalevala. It was one of the best-selling poems of the 19th century.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: I The Peace-Pipe
- 3: II The Four Winds
- 4: III Hiawatha’s Childhood
- 5: IV Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis
- 6: V Hiawatha’s Fasting
- 7: VI Hiawatha’s Friends
- 8: VII Hiawatha’s Sailing
- 9: VIII Hiawatha’s Fishing
- 10: IX Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather
- 11: X Hiawatha’s Wooing
- 12: XI Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feast
- 13: XII The Son of the Evening Star
- 14: XIII Blessing the Cornfields
- 15: XIV Picture-Writing
- 16: XV Hiawatha’s Lamentation
- 17: XVI Pau-Puk-Keewis
- 18: XVII The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis
- 19: XVIII The Death of Kwasind
- 20: XIX The Ghosts
- 21: XX The Famine
- 22: XXI The White Man’s Foot
- 23: XXII Hiawatha’s Departure