Read these excerpts.
How does "The Gettysburg Address" and "O Captain! My
Captain!" compare in their use of pathos (the use of
emotional appeals to affect the audience's feelings)?
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.
Neither the speech nor poem rely on the use of pathos.
Both the speech and poem are equal when it comes to
the use of pathos.
The poem relies more on pathos than the speech does.
The speech relies more on pathos than the poem does.
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;