Based upon these openings, what is the main difference between the ways these two poems are being told? “paul revere’s ride” is fictional while “oh captain! my captain! ” really happened. the narrator of “oh captain! my captain! ” is unreliable. the narrator of “paul revere’s ride” is telling a story that happened in the past. “oh captain! my captain! ” is predicting what will happen in the future.

The narrator of “Paul Revere’s ride” is telling a story that happened in the past.

Explanation:

The opening lines of "Paul Revere's ride" read as follows:

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;

Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year.

These lines indicate that the narrator of the poem is telling a story that happened in the past. In these lines, we learn that the narrator will tell a story. He tells us the date of the events, as well as how the date and the story has been forgotten by people. All of this indicated that the story took place in the past.

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