In Martin Luther King’s Letter to Birmingham Jail and Rabindranath Tagore’s Freedom, the writers use imagery to develop the idea of freedom in their writings. Martin Luther King Jr uses imagery in paragraph 11 when he says, “It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration…see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied’.” Thalidomide is a sedative drug that was used in the 1960s which was later found to cause absence of limbs in children whose mothers took the medicine during their pregnancy. Martin Luther King Jr. mentions this imagery to show how waiting may relieve the pain of segregation temporarily
