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“Ballad of Birmingham” is a direct reference to the harsh world of an African American living in America in the sixties. Dudley Randall did a great job of pulling me into the poem by using an illustration of a Mother and her son. A boy’s mother discourages her son from a freedom march that she thought would be surrounded with trouble and sent her son to church. Instead the mother finds out you can not protect a boy from the hate that stirs around in the minds of confused souls. The poem “Ballad of Birmingham” is an example of dramatic poetry. The author Dudley Randall uses two characters and creates an imaginary conversation between a mother and her son. The poem takes an excited tone when the son expresses joy over the thought of marching in a freedom parade.
Approximate Word count = 521
Approximate Pages = 2.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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