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During the 'darkest hour' Winston Churchill made some of his most memorable speeches
Two days after assuming the role of Prime Minister he gave his opening address to the House of Commons...
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."... "You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air..." "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
The words were not original, the timing and technique were perfect...
"Rhetorical power is neither wholly bestowed nor wholly acquired, but cultivated. The peculiar temperament and talents of the orator must be his by nature. Their development is encouraged by practice." - Churchill (The Scaffolding of Rhetoric - 1897 unpublished)
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Anacoenosis: figure of speech in which an appeal is made to one's listeners for their opinion or judgement as to the subject under discussion. Example: "You ask, what is our policy?"
Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences... Example: "victory" in the quote above.
I am currently reading "Darkest Hour" by Anthony McCarten.
Casey
Sunday Quote Day, Week 26, 2019
A couple of nuggets of wisdom for this twenty-sixth week of the year........ 'True enlightenment is to man like sunlight to the soil.' - N.F.S. Grundtvig 'It's better now, death is closer, I no longer have to look for it, no longer have to challenge it, t...
Lol x)....
I've always been of the opinion one could easily inhabit his mindset while living an entirely puritanical - clean - life .... Cheers, Filip
Haw haw haw haw xD
The funniest thing to me is that I very much belong to that 'demographic' . Thanks for the laugh! Cheers, Filip
During the 'darkest hour' Winston Churchill made some of his most memorable speeches
Two days after assuming the role of Prime Minister he gave his opening address to the House of Commons... " I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. "... " You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air......
I thoroughly enjoyed both....
Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk which has a wonderful ending where the protagonist soldier recites words from that particular speech, as well as the film Darkest Hour where Gary Oldman skilfully inhabits Churchill. Worth a look in my opinion, after you finish...
US President Roosevelt once said of Churchill...
" He has a hundred ideas a day. Four are good, and the other 96 downright dangerous. " Never publicly acknowledged according to McCarten's book, it's a little known fact that Churchill was "responsible" for Operation Dynamo, which to history is simply kno...
A timeless classic :)
Among my numerous favorites of his! Thank you for posting it here! Cheers, Filip
If "we are here to drink beer", then . . .
. . . the man who no longer can is well and truly lost, no?
