Speeches Paul Keating

How has Paul Keating used language to present his views in his speech on such a solemn and important occasion?

Paul Keating uses many different and effective forms of language to present his views. Keating uses forms of past tense, relevant statistics, comparison, and grouping the Australian soldier as no-one, but at the same time, everyone.
Keating’s’ first line of his speech is ’ We do not know this Australian’s name and we never will’ with this line, Keating instantly shows his audience what he is going to speak about throughout his speech. Throughout Keating’s speech he is constantly referring to the soldiers lost in the war as The Australian Soldier. What Keating achieves from this is to give the complete totality of how many Australians gave up their lives for the good of the nation. This is where Keating also uses some powerful statistics to reinforce what he has been saying. Keating then proceeds to contin...