Over the past few months, the numerous short stories, plays, and poems that I have read in this class have made a prodigious impression on me. To begin, the poem that struck me the most was “The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall. This poem covered a heartbreaking subject, yet remained humble in style. “The Ballad of Birmingham” is one of the first poems that made me have an emotional connection with the speaker. The poem took me on an emotive journey through a mother and an innocent child’s day that would unknowingly be the child’s last. I will never forget this poem due to the solid impression that it left on me. Prior to reading this poem, I had never seen or read anything about the Civil Rights Era from a mother’s perspective, especially
