I Ve Seen The Promised Land Speech Analysis

Martin Luther King Jr was a revelation to the minorities during the civil rights era throughout the 20th century. The day before his untimely assassination MLK's famous I’ve Seen the Promised Land speech was a true milestone of the progress that has been made in the African American civil rights movement. With his appeal to the people by using religious references, his use of repetition from his near death experience, his personal anecdotes which touched his audiences hearts, and his unique point of view he was able to achieve his purpose of trying to rebuild the economy and encouraging everyone who is able to fight.
In MLK's famous speech he used numerous references to God which allowed him to attract a larger following, and made it easier

He used his personal story to use an anaphora which brought about the severity of the situation. The doctors told him that if he had sneezed that the blade would have killed him. He goes on to talk about how if he had sneezed then he would not have been able to witness such remarkable achievements brought forth by people fighting for the same cause he was struggling to stay alive for. “If i had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in interstate travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.” He brings the nothingness of something as small as a sneeze to make the audience greatful and to make them feel a sense of relief that MLK did not sneeze. The sneeze symbolizes the sense of how something so little can have such a large effect on society as a whole. It made the anecdote more dramatic by repeating the words “If I had sneezed” several times which allowed for the audience to obtain a sense of how severe the situation actually