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.
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"Sunday Bloody Sunday" "Trenches dug within our hearts‚ And mothers‚ children‚ brothers‚ sisters torn apart" -- Matthew 10:35: "For I have come to set a man against his father‚ a daughter against her mother‚ and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." "Wipe the tears from your eyes" -- Revelation 21:4: "He will wipe every tear from their eyes..." "We eat and drink while tomorrow they die" A brilliant ironic take on I Cor 15:32 "If the dead are not raised‚ let us eat and drink‚ for tomorrow
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger) 1971 “Cinema and television sap and leach the narrative power away; insidiously impose their own conformities‚ their angles‚ their limits of vision; deny the existence of what they cannot capture. As with all frequently repeated experience‚ the effect is paradigmatic‚ affecting by analogy beyond the immediately seen – indeed‚ all spheres of life where a free and independent imagination matters”. That’s how John Fowles felt about new medias in 1968‚ when
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Bloody Sunday (Greengrass‚ 2001) shows the story of the peaceful march incident on 30 January 1972. In Blaney’s essay‚ she states Bloody Sunday presents itself as a counterfeit document. The main reason of her statement is that‚ Bloody Sunday specifies itself to viewers as a docudrama style film. In order to make Bloody Sunday a counterfeit document‚ Greengrass replicates the real footages and iconographic photographs. Photograph is a frozen moment without story however in Bloody Sunday‚ the Greengrass
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Kimbell describes a typical Sunday Vermonters spend down at the garage. He emphasizes the idea of “welding”‚ “fixing”‚ “repainting”‚ and “digging”‚ In order to stress the importance of building one’s life. He also mentions “sighting a gun” and “trying to charge a battery” in the hopes of painting a picture of rugged individualism‚ frontier living‚ and self dependence. Kimbell even highlights the practical necessities for everyday living and survival by including the smaller pleasures in life
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Analysis of “Ballad of Birmingham” In the “Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall conjures one of the most vivid and vicious chapters from the civil rights movement: the bombing of a church in 1963 that wounded twenty-one and cost four girls their lives. This poem is a dialogue between mother and daughter during which ironically the mother forbids the daughter to march for freedom‚ fearing violence will erupt. Instead she gives her daughter permission to sing in the choir at their church. Dudley
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“Sunday at the Park” First of all‚ in this story they say adults can be bullies too. In‚ Sunday at the Park by Bel Kaufman‚ Larry learn that their is this little boy at the park‚ who is throwing sand at him‚ and starting arguments between them two‚ and the parents. In the beginning‚ Larry is getting very emotional at the sandbox because‚ there’s this little boy who the narrator describes as‚ “same age as Larry‚ just with a chubby and husky face‚ and arms”. Larry then
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Analysis: "Ballad of Birmingham" In "Ballad of Birmingham‚" Dudley Randall illustrates a conflict between a child who wishes to march for civil rights and a mother who wishes only to protect her child. Much of this poem is read as dialogue between a mother and a child‚ a style which gives it an intimate tone and provides insight to the feelings of the characters. Throughout the poem the child is eager to go into Birmingham and march for freedom with the people there. The mother‚ on the other
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“Ballad of Birmingham” In the poem‚ “Ballad of Birmingham”‚ Dudley Randall depicts the real historical events of the 1963 bombing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s church by white hate criminals in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Although this is the background and basis to the poem‚ I believe there is a deeper meaning that just that. Beneath the talk of innocence by the child and the protective nature of the mother‚ there lies an ironic situation. This poem is not only about the tragic events of a hate crime during
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relationship with Francis‚ frames him as a figure of resistance‚ who will not submit entrenched political positions‚ framing him in a trustworthy light for the audience. The presence of the Irish Republican Army is made clear throughout ‘Bloody Sunday’. However‚ in comparison to other films that “usually grapple with IRA violence
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