Read the stanzas below from the poem “birmingham sunday” by richard fariña and complete the instruction that follows. that cold autumn morning no eyes saw the sun, and addie mae collins, her number was one. at an old baptist church there was no need to run. and the choirs kept singing of freedom, the clouds they were grey and the autumn winds blew, and denise mcnair brought the number to two. the falcon of death was a creature they knew, and the choirs kept singing of freedom, analyze the way in which fariña uses figurative language and sensory imagery to stir the reader’s emotions and create meaning in these stanzas.

The figurative language is one of the most commons written form to transmits the author felling’s to the audience, common form as the metaphor and the similes can make the text easier to understand for the reader.

The sensory imagery is a way to use the words to stimulate the five senses, touch, smell, hear, feel and taste.

Fariña by using these ways of writing he pictures us the scenario for his poem, he makes the reading get involved in the scene with freedom choirs, quiet scene, there is a falcon of death, danger omen, and the morning is cold, not so pleasant view, each sentence or comparison bring and image or feeling when it is read.

In this poem, Fariña uses both figurative language and imagery in order to stir the reader's emotions, and create meaning in the stanzas. Fariña uses imagery in his rich descriptions. He tells us that the morning was cold, and during autumn, and that the sun was nowhere to be seen. Moreover, the clouds were grey and the winds blew. This imagery contributes to the development of the setting. Moreover, he uses figurative language when he describes things using metaphors, symbols and similes. For example, when he talks about the "falcon of death" or the choir "singing Freedom."

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