I Have a Dream

“I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote, “I Have a Dream” in 1963 and delivered it at Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., on the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The speech utilizes quite a number of colorful metaphors that relate to the topic, as well as a diverse range of literary techniques, such as alliteration, parallelism, and poetry. Martin Luther King discusses a number of issues that all relate to the same …

…people will be judged by who they are instead of what color they are; and freedom and equality will exist in reality in America. At the same time he calls upon the peaceful resolution of this struggle. Martin Luther King’s powerful speech was very effective both in content and in the technique. Its use of parallelism and metaphors creates vivid images in listener’s mind and give a more meaningful understanding of the speech.