Abraham Lincoln's Ghettysburg Adddress Question Response

1. Keeping in mind the occasion of Lincoln’s speech one might have perhaps expected him to talk about former confederate soilders and office official’s partaining how former loyals should have been treated concerning betraying the union. Lincoln could have also mention the fact that the union won the war or even some thing along the lines of the declaration proclamation. Instead, He went back into history rather than what was becoming of history.

2. Lincoln’s concluding sentence merges lots of ideas. If spoken out loud it’s a continous thought with infused ideas. For a sentence that is meant to sum up a speech, it reinforces the ideas mentioned as well as leaves a lingering thought to encourage the audience present to take a lesson in patriotism. Readers can notice the accessive use of dashes used in the sentence which signifies that the speaker was jumping from thought to thought as he wrote his speech. This sentence rather beckons his audience to judge themselves instead of those they thought were their enemies in the war they just fought.

Example of sentence: It is most becoming of one so furiously indulged in groteque passions –a candeavor of thought, will and mere sympathies,-would in mind assign and feverently accomplish all that is far reaching and death sent- a note arriving unscorched enflamed wings-to the most auspicious of occasions on the edge of sanity.

3. The last line in the Declaration of independence is a promise for those mentioned within the text and those to live after. It’s a command or perhaps an instruction of how thing should be hence forth. In comparision of Abraham Lincoln’s address and the Declaration of independence were both written after a period of difficulty and trail to begin a new chapter in American history. Each was also written with hopefulness of continious assered independence and an always flourishing unity in the United States. In contrast however, the Declaration of Independence was written extensively and quiet detailed. The Ghettysbury address however was minute’ and to the point.

4. As compared to Lincoln’s speech they were all passionate. However Lincoln’s speech is not a judgement nor a condemnation but rather a thought for the American people to carry in their hearts.