Some great rhetoric, on this day in 1944: https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=606 … I'm struck by how Ike's speech seems clearly informed by the classical past, touching on the same standard elements as Greek and Roman battle speeches; I cannot imagine that is an accident. 1/5
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It was in fact, only reading this today that I noticed (my Latin teachers would be upset it took so long) the organization of each sections into rough tricolons (last sentence in the first paragraph; three sentences of the 2nd paragraph, sentences 3-5 in the third paragraph). 2/5
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That last one (from "The United Nations" through to "trained fighting men") is great. It's a 'rising' tricolon (each section growing in magnitude and often grammatical complexity). Cicero loves these, especially in the peroration (the big emotional conclusion to a speech)... 3/5
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Which is exactly where Ike has put his. The 'rising' structure of the tricolon builds momentum and emotional impact, a wave which then thunders in the following sentences ("The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!") 4/5
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I'll actually be talking more about ancient battle speeches on the blog this week! I may get into more how Ike's speech here parallels the construction of some of those sorts of speeches. end/5
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