Although an article may be informed about a tragic event, I would say a poem would be more powerful to read about a tragic event. First of all, poetry has sensory details. Secondly, poems concisely describe the violence. However, articles uses a lot of details that could confuse the reader. First of all, poetry uses sensory details which makes them more powerful to read about about a tragic event. In the poem called Ballad of Birmingham in stanza 7 from lines 25-28 it states,“For when she heard the explosion, Her eyes grew wet and wild. She raced through the streets of Birmingham Calling for her child.” This means that poems use sensory details by telling the story in a short and understandable way. For example, it said that the little girl’s mom heard an explosion coming from the church. Then her eyes
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In a poem called Ballad of Birmingham in stanza 8 from lines 29-32 it states “She clawed through bits of glass and bricks,Then lifted out a shoe. O, here’s the shoe my baby wore, But baby where are you?.” This shows that poems use concisely describes violence. For example, the little girl’s mother looked through broken glass and bricks to find her child. To support my answer I took a sentence from the text it says, “ She clawed through bits of glass and bricks… O, here’s the shoe my baby wore But baby where are you?” This also means that her daughter died because of the bombing at the church. This wouldn’t happen if people was causing problems because of racism.
On the other hand, article have a lot of details which could confuse the reader. In the article called The Birmingham Church Bombing: The Rest of the Watson Story on paragraph 2 it it states “In 1963, tension was running high in Birmingham. The civil rights movement was at it’s height…” This means that some of the phrases in the paragraph were difficult to understand and you couldn’t picture it like how you imagine what’s going on in the
In a poem called Ballad of Birmingham in stanza 8 from lines 29-32 it states “She clawed through bits of glass and bricks,Then lifted out a shoe. O, here’s the shoe my baby wore, But baby where are you?.” This shows that poems use concisely describes violence. For example, the little girl’s mother looked through broken glass and bricks to find her child. To support my answer I took a sentence from the text it says, “ She clawed through bits of glass and bricks… O, here’s the shoe my baby wore But baby where are you?” This also means that her daughter died because of the bombing at the church. This wouldn’t happen if people was causing problems because of racism.
On the other hand, article have a lot of details which could confuse the reader. In the article called The Birmingham Church Bombing: The Rest of the Watson Story on paragraph 2 it it states “In 1963, tension was running high in Birmingham. The civil rights movement was at it’s height…” This means that some of the phrases in the paragraph were difficult to understand and you couldn’t picture it like how you imagine what’s going on in the