Question

Compare and contrast the ways that “Birmingham Sunday” and “Ballad of Birmingham” each responds to the church bombing and the themes of both works. Use evidence from both readings to defend your analysis.
*READINGS, RESPONSE, DEFEND

Answer 1

In my understanding of the two, they both show the mourning of the bombings. They both use very descriptive sensory imagery, irony and figurative language to show and describe what had happened ina way that you can allows you to be put in their shoes and feel the fear and the terror of that day. One of the poems use refrain saying that they will sing the song of freedom and i believe that even though it is a horrible situation they will stay strong and unite together for thier freedom. They wont let this pain distract them from gaining what is right. In that same poem the 2nd to last stanza the author asks questions they don't really make sense and i think that they did that to emphasize they those things dont belong, just like that bomb does not belong there and those girls did not deserve to die because they are angry. To some it may also look like the author is saying that hate does not belong here, segregation does not belong here, war amungst innocent people does not belong.. and its just the sense that both make you feel the sorrow of that day and also the powerful movement that happened after.