Annotation In The Gettysburg Address

Undoubtedly, the speech of The Gettysburg Address presented by Abraham Lincoln delivered the intense passion that resided within all members of the Union who wished to fight for those who gave their lives to The Civil War. To commit to the sense of inequity from the purpose Lincoln desires, through allusion, he brings past victories that gave the nation hope, through repetition, he remained stagnant to any additions or denominations to the battlefield, and through contrast, he gave meaning to everything those before had fought for. From here, Lincoln boosts the morale of the Union by a significant measure, which leads to an embodiment of passion that briefly pulls the hearts of those who still have hope for a better tomorrow.
To start, literally in the first paragraph of the address, Lincoln brought to mention of a past use of encouragement that led to the independence of our nation. The use of this, alludes to the importance of the situation from then to the situation of now, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal,” (lines 1-3). By referencing such a victorious time of events, this brought the severity of the …show more content…
This piece was important for the fact that it inspired others in such a pervasive way to keep all Americans united under one related cause as it did with its founding. To this, The Gettysburg Address was not used to account the casualties of war and what to do, instead, this address was put together with such passion to invigorate the mind of the whole nation, being Union or Confederate, to fight for one united cause. A united cause that boosted the morale of all troops to fight for those they haven’t lost