Four In The Morning Speech Analysis

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At first I was really confused about the point of this speech, The Museum of Four in the Morning, and the title it was given. In the start he is talking about the Nobel Prize and a poem written by a Lady that had gotten stuck in his head. Then while he is trying to think of how he knows this poem and what it means to him he has the same thing over and over again. What he hears is the phrase “ four in the morning”. Rives talks about how he noticed he kept running across the phrase in his everyday life and spoke about it in a prior speech and now people send him all kinds of things that have his “four in the morning’ in it. The speaker then goes on to show us how all of our entertainment such as books, movies, comic strips, and television have the phrase in them. He reads quotes from books new and old that have the phrase. He plays movie and tv from different genres from Aliens to the Flintstones to porn that all have the phrase “ four in the morning” in them. After getting about ten minutes in to the speech the title finally clicked. The …show more content…

From the start I was annoyed with him for just playing and showing us things with the words four in the morning in it. I was thinking man they let anybody talk about anything they wanted to. But once he said that the girl from his past matched different songs with different poems I appreciated the poem for what it was. It was his story of the one that got away, and how he took all that for granted. I understood that this was a message to his audience, a message for us not to take things in our lives for granted. If he asked me what he could do to improve this speech I would tell him to keep it the same. Rives had it set up the perfect way to where it would keep the viewer on their toes, but still interested enough to make it to the end to understand the deeper meaning of his

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