Relationships between two people can have a strong bond and through poetry they can have eternal life. The relationship can be between a mother and a child, between a man and a woman, or between a person who strives for his own love. No matter what type of relationship there is, the bond between the two people is shown through literary devices to increase the romantic impression on the reader. Through Dudley Randall's “Ballad of Birmingham,” Ben Jonson's “To Celia,” and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?” by William Shakespeare. relationships are seen as a powerful bond, everlasting love, and even a romantic anthem. The "Ballad of Birmingham" is a poem created to remember a horrific event and visualize a strong relationship between a mother and her daughter during the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama. Dudley Randall expresses their relationship through a ballad, as if writing a hymn to remember a strong bond between mother and son, only to have the bond torn away by racial violence. Through Randall's dialogue between the daughter and the mother, the reader can sense the close bond as the daughter pleads, "Mother dear, can I go downtown instead of going out to play and march through the streets of Birmingham in a freedom march Today?" (1-4) The daughter wants to help her fellow African Americans who are fighting for their rights and march alongside them “To set our country free” (11). The mother wants to protect her son, as any mother would and replies: "No, darling, no, you can't go, because the dogs are fierce and wild, and sticks and fire hoses, guns and prisons won't do for a while '." child." (5-8)The mother fears for her child's safety from all the violence and allows her to sing in the middle of the children's sheet......comparison of Summer with her love through personification , cross rhymes and metaphors. All three poets created a memory of strong relationships so that readers can remember them forever. Works Cited Jonson, Ben poetry, theater and writing. By XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 6th ed. Boston: Longman, 2010. Print. Compact edition. Randall, Dudley. "Ballad of Birmingham." , to poetry, theater and writing. By XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Boston: Longman, 2010. Print. Shakespeare, William. 1894. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. By X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 6th ed. Boston: Longman, 2010. Print. Compact edition.