I have a dream | Analysis

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be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied and we will not be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, South →should especially seek change By using oasis ne achieves that freedom oppresion, hea oasis analysis repetition; anapnora → employs a song in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. talking about a rally; gathering Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had bee who had been seared in the flames of withering metaphor underlines the heat, pain, suffering → light became flame abstract things (was not able to change th injustice (...) pronoun makes the audience feel adressed But 100 But 100 years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. personal One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still anar no discrimination negative connotaded words. positive connotaded words. sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and metaphor feeling of capture / lastness in divide the chains of discrimination (...) the possible to cure his wish < metaphor oasis of freedom and justice. (...) future as a wonderful Ht declared all slaves free (A863) until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness similee like a mighty stream(...) beginning of the end of slavery →light of hope Jim Crow Law (poll taxes, voter innimidation, tests) no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied present future the wish/donge now and in futur of freedom will not unni sth. is done => goal of his speech (to stop horrors) & entire cini Rights Movement segregano adresses everyone 7 personal language →→is supposed to make clear that the people can rely on king his aims ne really wants to change the situation & life for everybody in a positive |(...) I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the way difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free repetition at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" a dream. It is dream deeply rooted in the American metaphor explains how intensive the desire of achieving the aim is desire emphasized dream. anaphora parretism I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. Declaration of Independence I did not become true for African Americans) I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. metaphor bond between people of different races that goes beyond friendship evokes an image of peace & joy in the minds of the audience I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi) a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an 4 in the brighter futur he imagines, these things are no longer going to be a concern wants to convey measures he has planned will contribute to progress & equality that's the dream encouragement / new hope makes clear to people that they are not alone recerve support. from nim I have a dream today! today stands out, before, I have a dream.. =) He wants change, but he thinks it's important to start today, not any other day (American Dream) →king uses this metaphor to make his version of the dream more vivid connast between two absnag things mountains of America enumeration ↳ ne mennons diferent groups of people; although diferent, they are a community emphasites equality religious language I shows his background) we are all God's children (we shouldn't be separated, because of our diferences)