In a time of celebration for his presidency, President Kennedy brings up making a change in our country. He highlights the importance of making relations with other countries in the world as well as the United States’ role in the world. He utilizes anaphora to establish his opinion on the changes America should make in the upcoming presidency in order to make the world a better place for all.
He begins his speech by addressing how America should help fellow nations--he begins each paragraph with “to” to show a list, emphasizing how many areas are in need of our help and how we as a country can help them. The audience therefore understands how large-scale and prevalent problems around the world and outside of our country are. With the help from the United States, it is not only making another country better, but making a “sister” or “brother” better.
Kennedy continues to use anaphora when discussing the left and right wing conflicts within the United States. He uses “let both sides” in the beginning of both sentence to once again emphasize the compromises and amends both sides have to make in order to keep a unified and continuously patriotic country. By utilizing anaphora, he not only allows the audience to make the logical connection, but he also touches the audience’s hearts, for he shows the American people the greater, more unified place they could all live in as long as these compromises are made.
Although the previous years leading up to Kennedy’s presidency were not ideal, Kennedy switched around to a more positive perspective during his inaugural address, giving hope to all Americans to the future in his presidency. He uses anaphora in order for the audience to understand and take to heart his message of bringing not only the American people, but the whole world together to make the a better place.
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