Coubertin's speech always revolves around the interpretation of the Olympic spirit, giving people a feeling of being present for the Olympic spirit. In addition, he used the first person "I" and "we" in his speech, putting himself in the audience, narrowing the distance between the speaker and the audience, and making the audience feel strongly that the Olympic movement is a common cause.
2. Poetic language
Beautiful language expresses my sincerity and persistence in joining the Olympic cause, which is full of strong optimism, inspiring people's hearts and giving people unlimited expectations. At the end of the speech, Coubertin expressed his firm belief in the Olympic spirit by metaphor and symbolic lyricism.
Creation background
Coubertin is a well-deserved "father of the Olympics". He devoted his whole life to the Olympic movement. In order to introduce a vibrant new education system to the motherland, Coubertin devoted himself to studying different contemporary education systems and the history of ancient Greece since he was a teenager. 1894, he convened the first international sports conference, established the International Olympic Committee, and put forward the slogan "Sports for the public". Since then, the modern Olympic movement has flourished.
19 12 At the Stockholm Olympic Games, Coubertin published the famous prose poem Ode to Sports. In this poem, he passionately eulogized sports and the Olympic Movement, spoke highly of the role and position of the Olympic Movement in modern social civilization, and satirized and criticized various drawbacks in the Olympic Movement. His leading ideas are "sports is justice", "sports is progress" and "sports is peace".
This article is a speech given by Coubertin in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 19 19. The theoretical foundation he laid has enabled the Olympic movement to stand the test of a hundred years of wind and rain and develop into a lasting youth movement and peace movement.