Florent Lefortier answered
The Ballad of Birmingham is a poem written about the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
The bombing took pace in 1963, and the poem was written by Dudley Randall in 1969.
What Are The Different Types Of Imagery?
The bombing took pace in 1963, and the poem was written by Dudley Randall in 1969.
What Are The Different Types Of Imagery?
- Visual imagery - sight
- Olfactory imagery - smell
- Gustatory imagery - taste
- Auditory imagery - sound
- Tactile imagery - touch
- Kinesthetic imagery - movement
- Visual imagery is used to convey the mother’s terror (“her eyes grew wet and wild”) and to show the innocence and vulnerability of the little girl (“drawn white gloves on her small brown hands”)
- Olfactory imagery is used to make the little girl seem sweet and innocent (“and bathed rose petal sweet”), which makes her death more tragic
- Kinesthetic imagery conveys the mother’s urgency and panic as she tries to find her daughter. Examples include “she clawed through bits of glass and brick” and “she raced through the streets of Birmingham”
- Auditory imagery isn’t used in the conventional sense, but as so much of the poem is dialogue, you could argue that the spoken words act as imagery by conveying a sense of character. For example, the mother’s repetitive use of words like “baby,” “children” and “little girl” emphasize just how young her daughter actually is, as well as showing how much she cares for her.
