Logos Save the Country

A songwriter almost never uses numerical statistics or facts to persuade the audience. But in the song “Save The Country”, Laura Nyro uses religious values create rhetoric. In my opinion, the catholic audience will agree with the points made in the song. In the verses, Nyro tells people to come to the “Glory River” to be saved and to wash away the devil. According to the catholic religion, a person must be baptized to be saved from the original sin and the devil. I believe that Laura Nyro is using the devil as a representation of all of the malicious problems during the 1960s. Through these religious metaphors the artists is telling the audience that we (the people of the U.S.) have to change in order to save the country. Only then will we be able to build the dream society described by Laura Nyro.