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Explore the way these poets examine racism in their culture
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Explore the ways these poets examine racism in their culture This is an essay in which I plan to look at poetry from a different culture. The culture which I am looking at is black Americans and the three poems that I am going to compare are all from around the 1960s. The poems that I am going to compare are; the Ballad of Birmingham, Incident and the Hurricane. The first poem I am going to look at is the Ballad of Birmingham. It was written to acknowledge the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15 1963, where a dynamite bomb went off in a black church, killing four children. This poem is written as a conversion between a mother and a child. It talks about how the child wished to protest, 'to make our country free', and how the mother would not let her child as it...
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