In Julia Ward Howe’s song “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” she uses religious overtones with God as his holy truth continues to spreads amidst fight and as the narrator recounts God’s triumphs. However, while the religious aspects of the song are clear, the true tone of this song is one of rallying. Howe uses the much respected figure of the Christian god that spreads his truth to all while gathering great in order to create a tone that rallies others who hear the song. God “has sounded fourth the trumpet that will never call retreat” as a point in the song. Upon hearing that an almighty deity such as God blow a trumpet, which signifies the start of a battle, with no plans or need to ever back down creates at sense in a person that rallies
