The Commencement Speech

What is a Commencement Speech?

This speech ilustrates the efective use of Analogy, Imagery and symbolic language.

Some of you may be wondering why Graduation ceremonies are also called Commencement exercises.For Graduation is the end of the course while Commencement  means trhe begining.Is it possible that the two antithetical words could mean the same thing?

The explanation is quite simple, For Graduation is the end of the course and Commencement is either of another course or of something else—– perhaps a career or a married life. It is like a twilight that marks the end of the day. For life and everything material around us begin and end, and the begining of ones’s marks trhe end of another in the ceaseless march of time.

In our studies, the end of Elementary course is the begining of High School, and the end of High School is the begining of College.

But there is one Graduation, one Commencement exercises taht must come to everyone of us—- and from which there is no escape.

The Graduation from time and the Commencement of eternity.

All Graduation in this life are leading us to and are preparation for the last and final Commencement, just as every steps of stairs which leads us to the threshold, or like curtains that opens as we walk through them, which opens the Magnificent vista of unending horizon.