Farewell Speech

A Farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons relating to reasons for their leaving. The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech", though it is broader in that it may include geographical or even biological conclusion. In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion (ἀποβατήριον), standing opposed to the epibaterion (ἐπιβατήριον), the corresponding speech made upon arrival.

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Famous quotes containing the words farewell and/or speech:

    The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
    And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade,
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)