She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. what is ironic about the sensory imagery in the stanza? the little girl is preparing her appearance carefully for church, but the church will be bombed. the little girl is going, against her mother’s wishes, to participate in a freedom march on the streets of birmingham. the little girl has to decide between going to church or to school. the mother asked the little girl to hurry, but the little girl is taking her time getting ready.

The little girl is preparing her appearance carefully for church, but the church will be bombed.

Explanation:

This is an excerpt from the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham." In this poem, Dudley Randall talks about the bombing of a black church by white supremacists in Birmingham, Alabama. This bombing was shocking for a lot of people, and the poem became very popular. In this stanza, the author describes the careful preparation of a girl who is going to church, and the irony lies in the contrast between her careful preparation and the fact that the church will be bombed.

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