Sunday, October 6, 2013
Pathos "Save the Country"
The pathos demonstrated in "Save the Country", is shown within the lyrics chosen by Laura Nyro. She used words like devil, fury, and war to stress the negativity in which she wished to overcome. Emotions like anger or frustration can be taken from the use of these words. Laura Nyro also used phrases like "save the children", "build the dream", and "save the country" to influence her audience to make and fight for change. These phrases provoke emotions of motivation and devotion. The audience could be motivated to make a change and devoted to building the dream. Nyro's use of both negative and positive words allow the audience to feel infuriated with war in society, but encouraged to do something about it. Her use of pathos successfully sends her message across, while connecting emotionally with the audience.
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who was her audience? why do you think she wanted to connect emotionally to her audience? what does that say about her or our country?
ReplyDeleteHer audience was the American people. She reached out to everyone, in order to see change in the society she thought was corrupt. In my opinion, this simply mean that when our country comes together, things can happen.
DeleteI agree that its effective to reach out to your audience by using the innocence of children, or making the audience feel as though they need to restore or save something.
ReplyDeleteYour right! Laura Nyro did successfully send her message across because when I was listening to it, I felt that connection. I also think her message was sent well because she repeated, "come on people" , "come on children" so people have that stuck in their head.
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