What "crossfire" is the poem referring to?
What two camps are fighting?

What is your interpretation of “the story of my experiments with turth”?

Highlight all instances of parallel structure. there is no longer any room for hope. if we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight!

How can an author give a reader more information about a character