When this reasoning is made public and helps influence an audience, it becomes a useful rhetorical tool. Both Lincoln and Dickinson used this resource in their work. Dickinson's poem states that war has many difficulties and that victory cannot be achieved without going through difficult times. She supports this argument exceptionally well when she writes: “The distant accents of triumph; Break, anguished and clear! As shown in the last two lines of his poem, the use of the words tensions and anguish reinforces his position on the difficulties encountered during the civil war. Lincoln's speech chose to argue that the war was part of God's will and that the outcome which he believed favored the North and the abolition of slavery was also divine and