Rhetorical Analysis of Newell Convers Wyeth’s Painting “The Unknown Soldier” by Caroline Grable ‘25

Written By Lolade Palmer

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Newell Convers Wyeth’s painting ‘The Unknown Soldier’ depicts a World War I soldier in a haze near many crosses wedged in the earth with ghostly cavalry in clouds behind him. NC Wyeth produced many illustrations for the book, Poems of American Patriotism. The portraits were commissioned in 1922 after the First World War when countless young men had just recently died in gruesome battles. This particular visual corresponded with Angela Morgan’s poem, The Unknown Soldier, written for the 1921 burial of the famous unknown soldier in the Capitol

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Rhetorical Analysis of Newell Convers Wyeth’s Painting ‘The Unknown Soldier’: Caroline Grable ‘25

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