Why is the use of pathos more appropriate in Whitman’s poem than in President Lincoln’s speech?

Whitman’s poem responds emotionally to Lincoln’s death, so pathos—the appeal to feelings—is appropriate to its purpose. Lincoln’s speech serves a different purpose and may rely more on ideas about the nation and its future. The claim that Whitman or all Civil War poetry always uses pathos is too broad, and a poem does not have to use pathos to be good.

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