Out of Many, One: Rhetoric in The Gettysburg Address and "O Captain! My Captain!"

Question 1

Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!."Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

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Abraham Lincoln has tragically died.

Question 2

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pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings

Question 3

Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!".O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;

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the end of the war

Question 4

Read these excerpts.Lincoln’s "The Gettysburg Address."It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!".My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!But I, with mournful tread,Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

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The poem relies more on pathos than the speech does.

Question 5

Read these lines from Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!".But O heart! heart! heart!O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.

Question 6

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for people to continue the unfinished work of the soldiers

Question 7

Read Lincoln’s statement from "The Gettysburg Address."Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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by making a clear point that the country was founded upon equality for all.

Question 8

Read these lines from "O Captain! My Captain!".O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

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Whitman compares Lincoln’s tragic death to a captain lying dead on the deck of his ship.

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