In the song "Glory" by John Legend and Common, Logos is not used as well as the other rhetorical devices, mainly pathos, but is still present. Towards the end of the song, Common says "Never look back, we done gone hundreds of miles". This is referring to the marches from Selma to Montgomery during the Civil Rights movement. The hundreds of miles walked could also be interpreted as how long people have been fighting for equal rights. Common and Legend are telling people to keep going, and never stop until they have glory. The logic in this is looking at how far we have came, there would be no point in looking back. Common then goes on to say "No one can win the war individually It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people's energy" This presents the most logical way to gain equal rights for all races, which is to work together, using everyone's strengths and weaknesses to form one strong entity.
-Nebeyu
You did a good job establishing the reasoning behind each of the aspects of Logos within the song. However, I don't think you should begin your analysis by saying that "Logos is not used as well as the other rhetorical devices" because it weakens your analysis as a whole. I also think you should include a few hyperlinks so that readers can get more information on the topic, such as marches you mentioned in the post.
ReplyDelete~Micah Plotkin
I can see how it's hard to find the logos behind the song, but you do a good job in doing so. I had never heard the song before reviewing it from this comment and I feel that there is definitely more appeal to emotion than anything else. I like that you highlighted that the song carries the same logic that those fighting for equal rights do. As directly related the two topics are (the song and civil rights) — it relates them cosmically as well.
ReplyDelete—Jack Wisniewski
I think you did a great job with this post. Adding the lyrics and elaborating on how those parts of the songs appeal to logic well very well thought out and well done. I agree with Micah that it might be helpful to include a few hyperlinks, and that adding "logos is not used as well as the other rhetorical devices" does weaken the great post you have following the sentence. Other than that, you did a great job!
ReplyDelete- Emily Kader
Nebeyu, two comments. First, I think that perhaps logos needs to be thought of broadly here--any way the rhythms or music standards of the song stand in for the logical appeal? (I sometimes think of logos as something like math--it works cumulatively to help us understand something magnitude, and that certainly happens in music.) And, second, if appeals to logos really aren't present, why do you think that is? Was that an intentional choice?
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