Lyrics and Poetry: The Birmingham Church Bombing Answers

What is an elegiac broadside?

How does the focus of the poem “Birmingham Sunday” by Richard Fariña differ from the focus of the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall?

Read the line below from the poem “Birmingham Sunday” by Richard Fariña and answer the question that follows. On Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine, Which literary technique do the bolded words use?

Read the stanza below from the poem “Birmingham Sunday” by Richard Fariña and answer the question that follows. The clouds they were grey and the autumn winds blew,And Denise McNair brought the number to two.The falcon of death was a creature they knew,And the choirs kept singing of Freedom, Which type of figurative language does the bolded part of the stanza use?

Read the stanza below from the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall and answer the question that follows. She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,And bathed rose petal sweet,And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,And white shoes on her feet. Which literary technique does the stanza demonstrate?

Read the stanzas below from the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall and answer the question that follows. “Mother dear, may I go downtownInstead of out to play,And march the streets of BirminghamIn a Freedom March today?” “No, baby, no, you may not go,For the dogs are fierce and wild,And clubs and hoses, guns and jailsAren’t good for a little child.” “But, mother, I won’t be alone.Other children will go with me,And march the streets of BirminghamTo make our country free.” “No, baby, no, you may not go,For I fear those guns will fire.But you may go to church insteadAnd sing in the children’s choir.” What is ironic about the mother’s wishes?

Which ballad convention does Dudley Randall use in “Ballad of Birmingham”?