Figurative Language In The Ballad Of Birmingham

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I think Dudley Randall wrote it in poetic form for one simple reason to let the readers be more with what they are reading and putting it in poetic form brings more feelings towards it, You feel more aware while reading this. Randall wanted the readers to see and feel how the figurative language that is used to see how very one of them is used and by putting it as a poem it helps feel more of what happened in the tragedy of The Ballad of Birmingham. What really caught my attention in this poem was the inference of race and how Randall made it describe how much racism there was back then, his inference of race was ‘’ Small brown hands’’. I think he choose to use that because it shows that not being treated equal is not a good way of life.

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