Ballad Of Birmingham Analysis

In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, it isa about a young girl and her mother. They live in a a during a time where segregation, the young girl wants to march for his freedom, to end the racial problem in the United States, it is based on a true event that happened where an African American church got bombed. The author depicts irony, she doesn't want to let her daughter go down to march in the freedom parade because it is to dangerous for a young girl. But instead she sends her to church where she will be “safe”, little does the mother know that the church will be bombed. The irony in that is, no matter where you are no place is safe.

The poem Ballad of Birmingham is about a young child that lives in Birmingham, Alabama. The small girl asks her mother, “Mother dear, may I go downtown instead of out to play and march the streets of Birmingham in a Freedom March today”. The girl asks to go march for freedom; given that the …show more content…
The young girl will not be alone in his attempts to make her country free of racial problems, there would be other children that would be pursuing the same goal as her in an attempt for a better country. The girl insists on marching so that in return their nation could be free again and the difference between skin colors would be considered irrelevant. The child’s mother was still reluctant and responded saying “No baby no you may not go, for I those guns will fire but you may go to church instead, and sing in the children choir.” The mother’s perception being that the girl will be safer in the church because no one will hurt a house of God, and believing that singing in the children’s choir is safer than marching in the streets of Birmingham for freedom but little does the mother know that it will be a bad day at the house of God, for someone will commit a horrible