Birmingham Sunday By Raymond L. Patterson
Birmingham
An incident that took place back in 1963 at a predominantly black church in Birmingham Alabama inspired several African American poets to interpret their own views and sides of the on the event that took place. Well-known poets such as Langston Hughes and Raymond L. Patterson use different elements of poetry to reveal their own side of the horrific event that took place. Hughes uses imagery in his poem and describes a highly graphic crime on the incident that took place in Birmingham. Patterson’s diction uses a strong tone in his poem to have a strong impact on the readers but had less of an impact.
In Hughes’ poem “Birmingham Sunday,” the speaker describes a graphic image to describe what happened to the three little girls, stating
An incident that took place back in 1963 at a predominantly black church in Birmingham Alabama inspired several African American poets to interpret their own views and sides of the on the event that took place. Well-known poets such as Langston Hughes and Raymond L. Patterson use different elements of poetry to reveal their own side of the horrific event that took place. Hughes uses imagery in his poem and describes a highly graphic crime on the incident that took place in Birmingham. Patterson’s diction uses a strong tone in his poem to have a strong impact on the readers but had less of an impact.
In Hughes’ poem “Birmingham Sunday,” the speaker describes a graphic image to describe what happened to the three little girls, stating