the River” and the poem of “Washington Crossing the River” by David Shulman are many of
both.
The painting and poem both represent that desperate them being two different things they
can have even more similarities then they do differences.
The similarities of the poem and picture is that both men in the are working to get freedom
from the redcoats. They are both cold and freezing because the river is frozen solid. The horses
in the painting show purity because of the white horse. “How cold!” Weather stings as in anger.( Shulman line 3)
The sentence in the poem shows that the weather is cold and freezing and the picture supports