Dudley Randall Emotions

Although, articles build background information, the poem is a more powerful choice to read about a tragic event. First of all, a poem shows feelings and emotions. Secondly, a poem has sensory details. Lastly, an article doesn’t give any descriptive information on what happened, it just tells you straight forward. The information for an article is indescribable.
First of all, a poem shows feelings and emotions. In the poem, “The Ballad of Birmingham,” by Dudley Randall, it states in stanza 7,
“For when she heard the explosion,
Her eyes grew wet and wild.
She raced through the streets of Birmingham
Calling for her child.”
This proves that the poem shows feelings and emotions because you could tell how the mother was feeling. You could pick out the mother’s emotions, the mother was scared or fearful and anxious or uneasy. For example, when it said “Her eyes grew wet and wild,” you could tell the mother was crying but she was balling or in other words the mother wailed. She was crying delirious. Or when it says, “She raced through the streets of Birmingham,” you can tell that the mother wasn’t just walking and taking her sweet old time. She was full on running,

The information for an article is indescribable. In the article, “The Birmingham Church Bombing: The Rest of the Watson Story,” by Jennifer Kroll, it states in paragraph 6, “The church bombing wasn’t the first of such blasts that the city has seen-not by a long stretch.” This is saying that this passage didn’t explain or say how some people felt about all these bombings. In this passage there isn’t any layers on how someone felt, what they might have done, etc or anything like that. This passage isn’t expressive. It doesn’t express anything on how someone felt about the bombings, what they did about the bombings, etc. In other words to me the way the article explains the evidence isn’t as