me1 ?The Ballad of Birmingham?, scripted by Dudley Randall, is a song that commemorates the assault and battery of a black church building in aluminium in 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement. The poem is written in a traditional narrative style hold of a ballad, though the subject matter is far from traditional. The poem tells the myth of a woman who doesn?t let her young woman go to play in town because she feels that it is too dangerous, further sort of sends her to church where she feels that her daughter will be safe. The tragical satire of the story is that while the little girl is at church singing in the choir, the church is bombed and she is killed.

The author of the poem uses disparate literary techniques to accentuate the ironies of the story told. The poem is written with a regular rhyme scheme and in iambic tetrameter that makes the poem sound actually nursery rhyme like. It seems as though the author made this poem sound very child-like and gratis(p) to contrast the seriousness of wh...If you want to get a respectable essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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