USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -There is only one example of irony in the Gettysburg address and is found in this passage: The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Detailed explanation-2: -Everyone knows the irony of that line where Lincoln says “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here”-ironic because his brief dedicatory remarks have become the most famous American speech. In fact, the Gettysburg Address must rank high among the greatest speeches anywhere.

Detailed explanation-3: -The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

Detailed explanation-4: -"THE WORLD will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.” So Abraham Lincoln said 129 years ago today. In a sense, he was right! No one today knows exactly what he said.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.