Not a bad triad, but not to be compared with the original. Articulate speakers and writers throughout history have used antithesis to great effect. Shakespeare often used the device in the speech of his characters. Our national strife springs not from our permanent part, not from the land we inhabit, not from our national homestead. Our strife pertains to ourselves.
Antithesis is conflict, and like any conflict, it ought to be resolved when it can be.
Drawing again from a speech by Jesse Jackson, here is an example from his speech to the Democratic Convention in Atlanta on July 20, 1988. Mr. Jackson was comparing his background with that of Michael Dukakis, the nominee who eventually lost to George Bush. But whatever the original ships, we're in the same boat tonight. One of the finest examples of antithesis in a speech comes from an address delivered in Boston more than a century ago by Henry W. Grady, the esteemed editor of The Atlanta Constitution. The speech dramatized the economic plight of the South, which then was still largely agrarian.