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Ballad of Birmingham-619

SPOTTTs Poetry. Ballad of Birmingham-619. Plot Summary…. A young girl asks her mother for permission to attend a freedom march in downtown Birmingham with her friends. Her mother, fearing violence, refuses to let her go and suggests that the child go to church instead.

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Ballad of Birmingham-619

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  1. SPOTTTs Poetry Ballad of Birmingham-619

  2. Plot Summary… • A young girl asks her mother for permission to attend a freedom march in downtown Birmingham with her friends. • Her mother, fearing violence, refuses to let her go and suggests that the child go to church instead. • After she leaves, the mother is relieved that the child is in a safe place; then, she hears the bomb explode and rushes out to make sure her child is ok. • She goes to the site of the church, which is now a pile of broken glass and bricks, and searches through the debris. • She isn’t able to find her child, but she does find her little girl’s shoe.

  3. Questions to Keep in Mind… • When does climax occur? • What event do we infer from the last stanza? • What city/state is the location for the poem? • What are the two actual places where action occurs?

  4. “Mother” and “Daughter” Characteristics • Mother • Caring • Knowledgeable • Naive • Daughter • Reverent • Obedient • Innocent

  5. Historical Ballad Characteristics • Inscription • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church • Four young black girls • Hist. ballads are still fiction, • Children’s march

  6. Irony/Theme/Symbolism • Examine Situational Irony • Theme for this poem- No place is safe from racial hatred if a society does not provide equal protection and punishment under the law. • Symbolism of Innocence: • “rose-petal sweet” • wearing white gloves + shoes.

  7. Structure • Each stanza a quatrain • Has rhyme pattern • 2nd and 4th lines rhyme is metered (has rhythm pattern) though not same in all stanzas

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